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Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning
Summary: Starmie: unsupervised contrastive multi-column pretraining of PLM-based column encoders and cosine-based unionability with a filter-and-verify pipeline, raising table-union search quality by 6.8 MAP/recall. First to use HNSW for table-union (3,000× vs linear, 400× vs LSH).
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13032
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 8.0366354e-05
- Overall Rank
- 2,842 | 80.25%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3587136.3587146
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2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.8878659e-05 |
| 7,045 |
Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.8474104e-05 |
| 7,586 |
LakeCompass: An End-to-End System for Data Maintenance, Search and Analysis in Data Lakes |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.700127e-05 |
| 8,121 |
LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.5771143e-05 |
| 8,852 |
Watchog: A Light-weight Contrastive Learning based Framework for Column Annotation |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
4.4313992e-05 |
| 8,912 |
R2D2: Reducing Redundancy and Duplication in Data Lakes |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
4.4229886e-05 |
| 9,960 |
QueryArtisan: Generating Data Manipulation Codes for Ad-hoc Analysis in Data Lakes |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.2254157e-05 |
| 10,109 |
Retrieve-and-Verify: A Table Context Selection Framework for Accurate Column Annotations |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,168 |
FlowPilot: A Suggestion System for Designing Scientific Workflows |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,197 |
Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,519 |
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SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,597 |
Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,693 |
LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes |
2025 |
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4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,759 |
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VLDB |
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TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery |
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4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,848 |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,057 |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,066 |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,100 |
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4.1905499e-05 |
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Pagerank |
| 34 |
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VLDB |
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| 108 |
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2008 |
VLDB |
0.00048345996 |
| 219 |
Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models |
2021 |
VLDB |
0.00033354456 |
| 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 |
| 514 |
TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning |
2021 |
VLDB |
0.00021280726 |
| 519 |
Data Integration for the Relational Web |
2009 |
VLDB |
0.00021148006 |
| 814 |
Finding Related Tables |
2012 |
SIGMOD |
0.00016298739 |
| 936 |
Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00015197838 |
| 1,005 |
Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web |
2011 |
VLDB |
0.00014694038 |
| 1,179 |
Table Union Search on Open Data |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00013458551 |
| 1,185 |
JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00013432692 |
| 1,643 |
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2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011031534 |
| 1,742 |
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2021 |
VLDB |
0.00010695388 |
| 1,914 |
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2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010111859 |
| 2,142 |
LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search |
2016 |
VLDB |
9.4461701e-05 |
| 2,513 |
Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
8.6155767e-05 |
| 2,638 |
Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web |
2013 |
VLDB |
8.3995765e-05 |
| 2,737 |
Open Data Integration |
2018 |
VLDB |
8.2053894e-05 |
| 2,895 |
Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables |
2020 |
VLDB |
7.9539265e-05 |
| 3,001 |
SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
7.739698e-05 |
| 3,798 |
Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality |
2017 |
VLDB |
6.753528e-05 |
| 4,802 |
CLAMS: Bringing Quality to Data Lakes |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
5.9064959e-05 |
| 4,860 |
Integrating Data Lake Tables |
2023 |
VLDB |
5.867964e-05 |
| 4,970 |
Leva: Boosting Machine Learning Performance with Relational Embedding Data Augmentation |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.7900867e-05 |
| 5,538 |
Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets |
2020 |
VLDB |
5.4520759e-05 |
| 8,194 |
WarpGate: A Semantic Join Discovery System for Cloud Data Warehouses |
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CIDR |
4.5574831e-05 |
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