Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web

Summary: Proposes Knowledge Carousels for knowledge exploration using web tables, with sideways (IS-A) and downward (HAS-A) modalities for entity-seeking queries. Tackles entity-carousel alignment, candidate selection, and descriptive titles; user studies show table-based carousels yield better result sets than baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11677
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.295208e-05
Overall Rank: 9,268 | 36.42%
DOI: 10.14778/3149193.3149201

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Authors

1. Fernando Chirigati (New York University)
2. Jialu Liu (Google)
3. Flip Korn (Google)
4. You (Will) Wu (Google)
5. Cong Yu (Google)
6. Hao Zhang (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chirigati_vldb17,
        title = {{Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web}},
        author = {Chirigati, Fernando and Liu, Jialu and Korn, Flip and Wu, You (Will) and Yu, Cong and Zhang, Hao},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {3},
        pages = {193--204},
        doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149201},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149201},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,271	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.5779937e-05
4,904	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.4503063e-05
9,316	Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables	2019	SIGMOD	5.289545e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
91	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00034838835
317	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00021402049
1,055	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012389274
1,897	Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need	2014	VLDB	9.5243334e-05
3,211	Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications	2014	VLDB	7.6330836e-05
4,703	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.5549049e-05
8,131	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.4816838e-05

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