Automated Relational Data Explanation using External Semantic Knowledge

Summary: ADE automatically labels relational columns, infers relationships, and generates dataset-level explanations via ensemble maximum-likelihood models over knowledge bases, web tables, and Wikipedia. Its distinctive mixed-initiative interface incorporates user corrections and adds external context for curation and feature engineering. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13019
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,590 | 20.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554844

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Authors

1. Sainyam Galhotra (University of Chicago)
2. Udayan Khurana (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{galhotra_vldb22,
        title = {{Automated Relational Data Explanation using External Semantic Knowledge}},
        author = {Galhotra, Sainyam and Khurana, Udayan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3562--3565},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554844},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554844},
        year = {2022}
}

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2,161	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.0606664e-05

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