The invention relates to a table semantic device and method. The device comprises an entity determination unit, which is configured to connect entity names of each row of an entity column of the table to entities in an Internet knowledge base, so as to determine entities in the Internet knowledge base corresponding to various entity names; an attribute determination unit, which is configured to match a value of each column with an attribute value of an entity corresponding to this row in the Internet knowledge base for each row of the table, and determine an attribute corresponding to each column based on a matching resu and a tablet semantic unit, which is configured to perform semantization on the table based on the determined entity and the attribute corresponding to each column. According to the table semantic device and method provided by the invention, table information can be converted into semantic representation, implicit semantic information in the table can be explicit, and the Internet knowledge base can be supplemented and improved.
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