TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning
Summary: TURL pre-trains on relational Web tables using a structure-aware Transformer and a Masked Entity Recovery objective for unsupervised representation learning. The universal model adapts to multiple tasks (relation extraction, cell filling) with minimal fine-tuning, outperforming prior methods on 6 benchmarks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Xiang Deng
- 2. Huan Sun
- 3. Alyssa Lees
- 4. You Wu
- 5. Cong Yu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 55 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,054 | Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,063 | Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,097 | Navigating Data Repositories: Utilizing Line Charts to Discover Relevant Datasets | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,137 | Generalizable Data Cleaning of Tabular Data in Latent Space | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,205 | Steered Training Data Generation for Learned Semantic Type Detection | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00048377684 |
| 221 | Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models | 2021 | VLDB | 0.00033121824 |
| 364 | Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00025637562 |
| 420 | InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00023719065 |
| 818 | Finding Related Tables | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00016311524 |
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