Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes

Summary: Evaporate: an LLM-based system that converts heterogeneous documents into queryable tables using in‑context learning rather than domain-specific training. Evaporate‑Code+ ensembles many synthesized extractors with weak supervision to approach/exceed direct extraction quality while using a sublinear LLM pass (≈110× fewer document calls). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13765
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 0.00013890154
Overall Rank: 1,116 | 92.24%
DOI: 10.14778/3626292.3626294

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