Synthesizing Products for Online Catalogs

Summary: Introduces scalable product synthesis: extracting attributes from merchant offers, reconciling category-specific schemas, and fusing data into new catalog products. Novel instance-association-driven schema matching learns from automatically generated data, outperforming prior methods without manual labels. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10460
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.7262474e-05
Overall Rank: 7,013 | 51.89%
DOI: 10.14778/2002974.2002981

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hoa Nguyen (University of Utah)
2. Ariel Fuxman (Microsoft)
3. Stelios Paparizos (Microsoft)
4. Juliana Freire (University of Utah)
5. Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nguyen_vldb11,
        title = {{Synthesizing Products for Online Catalogs}},
        author = {Nguyen, Hoa and Fuxman, Ariel and Paparizos, Stelios and Freire, Juliana and Agrawal, Rakesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {7},
        pages = {409--420},
        doi = {10.14778/2002974.2002981},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2002974.2002981},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,969	DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web	2015	VLDB	5.5165897e-05
10,987	OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,911	Big Data Linkage for Product Specification Pages	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
390	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019382486
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
1,939	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.4490491e-05

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