Have a look at DeepDive too: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepdive.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepdive.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a>, this looks very similar at first glance. The approach of treating data integration&amp;extraction as a statistical inference problem is IMHO a big idea on the rise.