A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces

Summary: iForm: a probabilistic approach to auto-fill form-based web interfaces from input text. A Bayesian model uses content/style features and past field submissions to infer values, performing well even with few prior submissions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10432
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.6214101e-05
Overall Rank: 7,425 | 49.06%
DOI: 10.14778/1929861.1929862

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Authors

1. Guilherme A. Toda (Federal University of Amazonas; Nhemu Technologies)
2. Eli Cortez (Federal University of Amazonas)
3. Altigran S. da Silva (Federal University of Amazonas)
4. Edleno de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas)

BibTeX Citation

@article{toda_vldb11,
        title = {{A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces}},
        author = {Toda, Guilherme A. and Cortez, Eli and da Silva, Altigran S. and de Moura, Edleno},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {3},
        pages = {151--162},
        doi = {10.14778/1929861.1929862},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1929861.1929862},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,745	DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database	2014	VLDB	6.1018855e-05
9,399	Glean: Structured Extractions from Templatic Documents	2021	VLDB	5.2755515e-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
717	Automatic segmentation of text into structured records	2001	SIGMOD	0.00014649121
2,372	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.6786716e-05
2,412	NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML	2005	SIGMOD	8.6124752e-05
12,425	ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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