Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yi-Chin Tu

Yi-Min Wang

Li-wei He

Emre Mehmet Kiciman

Chun-Kai Wang

Xiaoxin Yin

Aleksey Sinyagin

Wenzhao Tan

A crowdsourcing data structuring system and method for capturing unstructured data from the Web and adding structure by placing the data in a document that is accessible by others in a cloud computing environment. Using crowdsourcing, the unstructured data is annotated, amended, and verified to add structure to the unstructured data. An anchor and update module convert the data to a pointer that links the document to the data at an information source and stores the pointer in the document rather than the data itself. The data displayed in the document is updated whenever the information source is updated. A contribution module allows users to add data to the document, a validation module allows users to determine the validity of the data linked to in the document, and an expert ranking module allows users to rank the expert or contributor of the data in the document.

Structuring unstructured web data using crowdsourcing

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Sammamish, WA, United States of America

Yi-Chin Tu