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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
10531
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00012339543
Overall Rank
1,370 | 90.49%
DOI
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1,643 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011031534
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2,737 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.2053894e-05
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3,232 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.3324293e-05
3,360 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.1719486e-05
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4,596 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 SIGMOD 6.0540725e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.883146e-05
5,022 Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets 2022 VLDB 5.7479778e-05
6,980 Dataset Relationship Management 2019 CIDR 4.8696895e-05
7,241 Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy 2018 VLDB 4.7867685e-05
7,590 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 4.6987033e-05
8,121 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 4.5771143e-05
8,137 Applying WebTables in Practice 2015 CIDR 4.5733935e-05
8,674 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 4.4659264e-05
9,017 Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web 2017 VLDB 4.4052897e-05
9,161 Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables 2019 SIGMOD 4.380727e-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
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
108 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00048345996
519 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00021148006
1,585 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011245609
2,324 Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language 2010 SIGMOD 9.0289103e-05
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
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