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Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web

Summary: Recovers Web-table semantics by annotating columns and relations with a noisy, web-derived catalog of class labels and relationships, enabling semantic search. Formal evidence-based labeling outperforms majority schemes and reports annotation coverage. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10282
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014694038
Overall Rank
1,005 | 93.02%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
420 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00023700634
814 Finding Related Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00016298739
1,179 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00013458551
1,544 KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011438274
1,643 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011031534
2,142 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 9.4461701e-05
2,513 Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models 2022 SIGMOD 8.6155767e-05
2,638 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.3995765e-05
2,842 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 8.0366354e-05
2,895 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 7.9539265e-05
3,001 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 7.739698e-05
3,163 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4611268e-05
3,232 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.3324293e-05
3,293 Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications 2014 VLDB 7.2598242e-05
3,360 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.1719486e-05
3,693 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.8326441e-05
3,798 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 6.753528e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.883146e-05
5,929 SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 5.2635297e-05
6,995 An Efficient Publish/Subscribe Index for E-Commerce Databases 2014 VLDB 4.8633927e-05
7,423 Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications 2020 VLDB 4.729385e-05
7,590 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 4.6987033e-05
8,090 PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage 2020 VLDB 4.5853298e-05
8,137 Applying WebTables in Practice 2015 CIDR 4.5733935e-05
8,237 In-Network Leaderless Replication for Distributed Data Stores 2022 VLDB 4.5474751e-05
8,576 RECA: Related Tables Enhanced Column Semantic Type Annotation Framework 2023 VLDB 4.4879383e-05
11,066 Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,903 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
11,918 Demonstrating "Data Near Here": Scientific Data Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,947 Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search 2015 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,979 Mining Latent Entity Structures from Massive Unstructured and Interconnected Data 2014 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,036 D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time 2013 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,052 Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era 2013 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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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
108 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00048345996
365 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00025616694
519 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00021148006
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
1,585 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011245609
2,949 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.8278177e-05
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