DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool

Summary: DataXFormer enables interactive semantic data transformations via reference data lookups (e.g., zip→city) beyond pure syntactic rules. The demo shows user interaction and evaluates transformation-discovery approaches over ~112M web tables and online sources, highlighting effectiveness and efficiency in data management tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5043
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 6.6374215e-05
Overall Rank: 4,546 | 68.82%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2723566

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Authors

1. John Morcos (University of Waterloo)
2. Ziawasch Abedjan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Ihab F. Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
4. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
5. Paolo Papotti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
6. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{morcos_sigmod15,
        title = {{DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool}},
        author = {Morcos, John and Abedjan, Ziawasch and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Ouzzani, Mourad and Papotti, Paolo and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2723566},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2723566},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,160	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011883163
3,301	Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality	2017	VLDB	7.5408662e-05
6,436	Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code	2018	SIGMOD	5.8793793e-05
7,245	The VADA Architecture for Cost-Effective Data Wrangling	2017	SIGMOD	5.6638209e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
367	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00019979463
516	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00017171198
1,554	Google’s Deep-Web Crawl	2008	VLDB	0.00010372108
1,839	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.6426575e-05
6,092	DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations	2015	CIDR	5.9794237e-05

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