Data Integration for the Relational Web
Summary: Octopus unifies search, extraction, cleaning, and integration over the Web’s messy relational data, discovering sources at query time. Best-effort Search, Context, and Extend operators exploit page context and user feedback to build integrated datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael J. Cafarella (University of Washington)
- 2. Alon Halevy (Google)
- 3. Nodira Khoussainova (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cafarella_vldb09,
title = {{Data Integration for the Relational Web}},
author = {Cafarella, Michael J. and Halevy, Alon and Khoussainova, Nodira},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687750},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687750},
year = {2009}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00034838835 |
| 94 | Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00034616103 |
| 183 | Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems | 2003 | CIDR | 0.00026283359 |
| 201 | Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00025558602 |
| 228 | Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00023941271 |
| 263 | Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.0002305693 |
| 1,316 | Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011181216 |
| 1,848 | Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach | 2007 | VLDB | 9.6208418e-05 |
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