Ten Years of WebTables

Summary: Retrospective on WebTables: exploiting accessible HTML tables as informal structured data. Surveys a decade of progress across academia and industry, situates WebTables in the data-management landscape, and sketches a forward-looking agenda for informal data research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11727
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 7.4611268e-05
Overall Rank: 3,163 | 78.02%
DOI: 10.14778/3229863.3240492

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,643	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011031534
3,520	GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables	2023	SIGMOD	7.0136102e-05
4,630	Knowledge Graphs 2021: A Data Odyssey	2021	VLDB	6.030304e-05
7,423	Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications	2020	VLDB	4.729385e-05
8,783	QuTE: Answering Quantity Queries from Web Tables	2021	SIGMOD	4.4478256e-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

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00065993143
108	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048345996
192	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00035692958
365	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025616694
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023700634
519	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00021148006
814	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016298739
1,005	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014694038
1,316	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00012616422
1,370	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012339543
3,232	InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables	2013	SIGMOD	7.3324293e-05
3,293	Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications	2014	VLDB	7.2598242e-05
3,343	Toward Computational Fact-Checking	2014	VLDB	7.196079e-05
3,745	TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment	2015	SIGMOD	6.7907837e-05
3,900	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	6.649432e-05
4,105	Extracting Databases from Dark Data with DeepDive	2016	SIGMOD	6.4409563e-05
7,590	Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases	2013	VLDB	4.6987033e-05
8,137	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	4.5733935e-05
9,017	Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web	2017	VLDB	4.4052897e-05

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