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Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords

Summary: Web tables as structured corpus; solve per-column keyword queries via joint table alignment. Introduces a query-segmentation model and content-overlap cues; uses bipartite matching and constrained graph cuts for joint labeling; validated on 25M tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10530
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00012349783
Overall Rank
1,367 | 90.50%
DOI
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939 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00015187344
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1,644 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011041787
2,141 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 9.4542625e-05
2,633 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.4063569e-05
2,730 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.2126735e-05
3,155 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4672742e-05
3,229 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.3393682e-05
3,358 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.1784949e-05
3,963 Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files 2020 VLDB 6.5840643e-05
4,607 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 SIGMOD 6.0538827e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.8887949e-05
5,024 Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets 2022 VLDB 5.7535043e-05
6,981 Dataset Relationship Management 2019 CIDR 4.8743957e-05
7,243 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 VLDB 4.7913666e-05
7,588 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 4.7030914e-05
8,116 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 4.581507e-05
8,135 Applying WebTables in Practice 2015 CIDR 4.5777549e-05
8,678 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 4.4702119e-05
9,014 Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web 2017 VLDB 4.4095176e-05
9,161 Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables 2019 SIGMOD 4.3849295e-05
11,063 Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data 2024 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,895 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,939 Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search 2015 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
107 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00048377684
518 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00021158934
1,585 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011255098
2,319 Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language 2010 SIGMOD 9.0387108e-05
4,092 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4561959e-05
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