Crossing the Structure Chasm

Summary: Argues for crossing the “structure chasm” by importing unstructured-data virtues (easy authoring/sharing) into structured data via the REVERE system. REVERE combines a rapid data-creation UI, a peer data-management layer answering queries over transitive local-schema mappings, and corpus-driven statistics over schemata to bootstrap tools for schema/mapping development and create a web of structured HTML-derived data. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00010430413
Overall Rank: 1,540 | 89.44%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)
2. Oren Etzioni (University of Washington)
3. AnHai Doan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Washington)
4. Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania; University of Washington)
5. Jayant Madhavan (University of Washington)
6. Luke McDowell (University of Washington)
7. Igor Tatarinov (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{halevy_cidr03,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '03},
        title = {{Crossing the Structure Chasm}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Halevy, Alon and Etzioni, Oren and Doan, AnHai and Ives, Zachary and Madhavan, Jayant and McDowell, Luke and Tatarinov, Igor},
        year = {2003}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537
778	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014102198
969	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012892148
1,728	Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge	2007	CIDR	9.9098087e-05
2,175	From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases	2021	VLDB	9.0215773e-05
3,589	Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins	2022	VLDB	7.2812353e-05
3,672	Haystack: A Customizable General-Purpose Information Management Tool for End Users of Semistructured Data	2005	CIDR	7.2113698e-05
5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.1514e-05
6,532	(Almost) Hands-Off Information Integration for the Life Sciences	2005	CIDR	5.8488924e-05
6,541	A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System	2007	CIDR	5.8471331e-05
7,282	Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100	2007	CIDR	5.6567725e-05
9,139	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	5.3160527e-05
10,012	Structures, Semantics and Statistics	2004	VLDB	5.1770908e-05
12,749	iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
171	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00027363924
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
327	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021091539
328	An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration*	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021081317
381	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00019549294
1,518	The XXL Search Engine: Ranked Retrieval of XML Data using Indexes and Ontologies	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010517242
1,900	StatiX: Making XML Count	2002	SIGMOD	9.5168326e-05
2,326	Statistical Synopses for Graph-Structured XML Databases	2002	SIGMOD	8.748172e-05
4,252	An Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Network for Distributed Caching of OLAP Results	2002	SIGMOD	6.8029543e-05
5,283	The Design and Implementation of CoBase	1993	SIGMOD	6.2836963e-05

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