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InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables

Summary: InfoGather augments entities and discovers attributes from web tables via holistic matching, enabling entity augmentation by name or example and attribute discovery with high precision. Topic-sensitive PageRank enables indirect table matching and multi-table aggregation; MapReduce preprocessing delivers near-interactive latency and four orders of magnitude speedup on 573M web tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4516
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00023700634
Overall Rank
420 | 97.09%
DOI
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514 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00021280726
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2,585 Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks 2024 SIGMOD 8.4909917e-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
2,842 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 8.0366354e-05
3,163 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4611268e-05
3,232 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.3324293e-05
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4,691 DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool 2015 SIGMOD 5.9876184e-05
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5,538 Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets 2020 VLDB 5.4520759e-05
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6,235 New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.1386078e-05
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8,137 Applying WebTables in Practice 2015 CIDR 4.5733935e-05
8,338 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.538469e-05
8,497 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 4.49328e-05
8,674 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 4.4659264e-05
8,692 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 4.4617233e-05
9,278 ActiveDeeper: A Model-based Active Data Enrichment System 2020 VLDB 4.3607776e-05
10,693 LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
108 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00048345996
155 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00040666376
207 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.00034571837
304 Generic Schema Matching with Cupid 2001 VLDB 0.00028282278
365 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00025616694
519 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00021148006
875 Fast Personalized PageRank on MapReduce 2011 SIGMOD 0.00015679931
899 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.00015476061
1,005 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014694038
1,527 Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later 2011 VLDB 0.00011494604
1,585 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011245609
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