Synthesizing Products for Online Catalogs

Summary: Product synthesis for automated catalogs: extraction, schema reconciliation, and data fusion across merchants. Schema matching using instance-level associations and generated training data; outperforms prior work in precision/recall on 800k offers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10269
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.8653916e-05
Overall Rank: 7,006 | 51.27%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,919	DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web	2015	VLDB	4.616746e-05
10,754	OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,706	Big Data Linkage for Product Specification Pages	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
208	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0003460594
382	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00024823252
916	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015379422
2,174	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.3672342e-05

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