Extracting semantic relationships from table structures in electronic documents

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

• determine a configuration of cells within the table data structure;
• identify one or more super-cells within the table data structure based on the determined configuration of cells;
• convert, for each super-cell in the one or more super-cells, table data corresponding to the super-cell into a semantic relationship statement for the super-cell, wherein the semantic relationship statement identifies one or more relationships between portions of the table data corresponding to the super-cell;
• and
• store the semantic relationship statements for each of the super-cells in association with the table data structure.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• determine a configuration of cells within the table data structure;
• identify one or more super-cells within the table data structure based on the determined configuration of cells;
• convert, for each super-cell in the one or more super-cells, table data corresponding to the super-cell into a semantic relationship statement for the super-cell, wherein the semantic relationship statement identifies one or more relationships between portions of the table data corresponding to the super-cell;
• and
• store the semantic relationship statements for each of the super-cells in association with the table data structure.