Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach

Summary: Introduces LSD, a semi-automatic data integration system that learns semantic mappings to a schema from seed mappings. It combines multiple learners—using schema, data, domain constraints, and XML structure—with a meta-learner to map sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3357
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.0002305693
Overall Rank: 263 | 98.20%
DOI: 10.1145/375663.375731

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. AnHai Doan (University of Washington)
2. Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
3. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{doan_sigmod01,
        title = {{Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach}},
        author = {Doan, AnHai and Domingos, Pedro and Halevy, Alon},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/375663.375731},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375731},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 52 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,739	SMART: A Tool for Semantic-Driven Creation of Complex XML Mappings	2005	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,826	Schema-driven Customization of Web Services	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 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
180	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026772368
328	An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration*	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021081317
454	Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation	1998	VLDB	0.00018133578

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