DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations

Summary: DataXFormer leverages Web tables and dynamically-wrapped Web forms to automatically discover explicit value-mapping reference datasets for semantic data transformations. Combines an inductive filter–refine search over web tables with dynamic form retrieval, covering >80% of real-world transformation queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 275
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.2650964e-05
Overall Rank: 5,937 | 58.70%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011836053
4,695	DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool	2015	SIGMOD	5.9927993e-05
6,270	MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction	2022	VLDB	5.1337451e-05
8,499	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	4.4975851e-05

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Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00066047203
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00028132402
320	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00027577867
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023719065
489	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00022030728
518	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00021158934
818	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016311524
1,537	Google's Deep-Web Crawl	2008	VLDB	0.00011465704
1,972	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.8916725e-05
2,617	Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources	2013	VLDB	8.4462621e-05
3,678	Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction	2011	VLDB	6.8517545e-05
3,747	Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction	2007	VLDB	6.7917216e-05
3,758	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	6.7824746e-05
6,751	Optimal Schemes for Robust Web Extraction	2011	VLDB	4.939042e-05

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