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Table 14 Independent challenges identified from selected studies

From: An analytical study of information extraction from unstructured and multidimensional big data

Challenges of unstructured big data IE

Studies

Frequency

Data quality

[31, 58, 59, 63, 64, 84, 95, 138]

9

Data sparsity

[16, 22, 31, 34, 95]

6

Data volume

[10, 13, 15, 19, 65]

5

Data usability

[11,12,13, 27, 28]

5

Context understanding

[27, 31, 39, 64]

4

Computational requirements

[15, 68, 84, 124]

4

Data dimensionality

[16, 18, 66]

3

Heterogeneity

[33, 131]

2

Diversity

[55, 124]

2

Semantic understanding

[43, 44]

2

Data modeling

[16, 68]

2

Ambiguities in data

[31, 105]

2

Data scarcity

[62]

1

Balance among informativeness, representativeness, and diversity

[127]

1