KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing

Summary: Katara is a data cleaning system powered by knowledge bases and crowdsourcing that interprets table semantics to align data with KBs and identify correct versus incorrect values. It then outputs top-k repairs and demonstrates scalable, cross-domain applicability with efficient, crowd-assisted annotation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5048
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00011446851
Overall Rank: 1,546 | 89.25%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2749431

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 45 of 45 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
192	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00035728858
517	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00021169035
1,337	HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection	2019	SIGMOD	0.00012497164
1,612	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00011142794
1,627	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011086905
1,894	Baran: Effective Error Correction via a Unified Context Representation and Transfer Learning	2020	VLDB	0.0001018378
2,158	Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables	2019	SIGMOD	9.4141354e-05
2,302	Nearest Neighbor Classifiers over Incomplete Information: From Certain Answers to Certain Predictions	2021	VLDB	9.0668832e-05
2,349	RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation	2021	VLDB	8.9876423e-05
2,506	Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables	2018	SIGMOD	8.6335464e-05
2,968	Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System	2019	SIGMOD	7.7985097e-05
3,299	SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection	2020	SIGMOD	7.2546659e-05
3,396	Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?	2024	VLDB	7.1455126e-05
3,773	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	6.7758649e-05
4,126	Waldo: An Adaptive Human Interface for Crowd Entity Resolution	2017	SIGMOD	6.4314729e-05
4,806	Uncertainty Annotated Databases - A Lightweight Approach for Approximating Certain Answers	2019	SIGMOD	5.9092698e-05
5,096	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	5.7011825e-05
5,729	KATARA: Reliable Data Cleaning with Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	VLDB	5.3506368e-05
5,978	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	5.2453012e-05
6,182	Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach	2021	SIGMOD	5.1682689e-05
6,187	Semi-Supervised Data Cleaning with Raha and Baran	2021	CIDR	5.1656857e-05
6,416	Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code	2018	SIGMOD	5.072267e-05
7,013	Qualitative Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	4.8619024e-05
7,223	Akane: Perplexity-Guided Time Series Data Cleaning	2024	SIGMOD	4.7965857e-05
7,292	Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base	2018	SIGMOD	4.7740174e-05
7,766	ICARUS: Minimizing Human Effort in Iterative Data Completion	2018	VLDB	4.6564959e-05
9,043	Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases	2023	SIGMOD	4.4039656e-05
9,221	VisClean: Interactive Cleaning for Progressive Visualization	2020	VLDB	4.3699444e-05
9,240	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
9,348	GIDCL: A Graph-Enhanced Interpretable Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models	2024	SIGMOD	4.3526427e-05
9,479	Data Imputation with Limited Data Redundancy Using Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.3341665e-05
9,771	EasyDR: A Human-in-the-loop Error Detection and Repair Platform for Holistic Table Cleaning	2022	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
9,777	Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration	2021	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
9,896	Towards Interpretable and Learnable Risk Analysis for Entity Resolution	2020	SIGMOD	4.2600049e-05
10,003	Clustering with Set Outliers and Applications in Relational Clustering	2026	PODS	4.1945683e-05
10,026	Minimum Change ≠ Best Cleaning: Parallel and Incremental Error Detection under Integrity Constraints	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,006	FusionQuery: On-demand Fusion Queries over Multi-source Heterogeneous Data	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,069	Hardware-Efficient Data Imputation through DBMS Extensibility	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,178	LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,399	ActivePDB: Active Probabilistic Databases	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,454	Contextual Data Cleaning with Ontology FDs	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,536	LOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,680	WiClean: A System for Fixing Wikipedia Interlinks Using Revision History Patterns	2019	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,788	CDB: Optimizing Queries with Crowd-Based Selections and Joins	2017	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,816	DOCS: Domain-Aware Crowdsourcing System	2017	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
112	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00047045036
224	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00032746205
263	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00029862413
265	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00029763412
364	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025637562
555	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020254908
560	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00020141923
623	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00018996374
656	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018588729
674	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00018327585
732	Discovering Data Quality Rules	2008	VLDB	0.00017465093
833	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00016138432
881	Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015661103
1,001	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014706505
1,012	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001464733
1,159	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.00013592813
1,197	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00013390321
1,628	PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema	2012	VLDB	0.00011085347
2,078	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.599707e-05
2,420	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.8530994e-05
2,755	Advanced Processing for Ontological Queries	2010	VLDB	8.1690695e-05
2,823	Interaction between Record Matching and Data Repairing	2011	SIGMOD	8.0593894e-05
2,847	Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches	2013	SIGMOD	8.0224023e-05
3,192	Towards Dependable Data Repairing with Fixing Rules	2014	SIGMOD	7.4095761e-05
5,081	Reducing Uncertainty of Schema Matching via Crowdsourcing	2013	VLDB	5.7132042e-05
5,852	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	5.3007132e-05
7,588	Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases	2013	VLDB	4.7030914e-05

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