Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code

Summary: Autotype synthesizes semantic-type detectors by mining code from positive examples and a keyword; it derives type-detection logic from execution traces. On a 112-type benchmark, it detects 84 with precision, boosting web-table discovery vs. baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5596
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.8793793e-05
Overall Rank: 6,436 | 55.85%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196888

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Authors

1. Cong Yan (University of Washington)
2. Yeye He (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yan_sigmod18,
        title = {{Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code}},
        author = {Yan, Cong and He, Yeye},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196888},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196888},
        year = {2018}
}

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2,099	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	9.1682353e-05
2,223	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	8.9189986e-05
2,728	Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables	2019	SIGMOD	8.1995954e-05
2,978	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	7.9030989e-05
4,412	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.7168614e-05
5,051	Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms	2021	SIGMOD	6.385354e-05
7,690	Auto-Validate: Unsupervised Data Validation Using Data-Domain Patterns Inferred from Data Lakes	2021	SIGMOD	5.5669307e-05
10,785	Auto-Test: Learning Semantic-Domain Constraints for Unsupervised Error Detection in Tables	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
91	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00034838835
94	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034616103
183	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00026283359
506	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.0001728171
1,101	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00012168934
1,356	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00011050127
1,939	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.4490491e-05
3,574	TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment	2015	SIGMOD	7.2958137e-05
4,546	DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool	2015	SIGMOD	6.6374215e-05
7,078	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel	2018	SIGMOD	5.7095504e-05
8,491	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	5.414689e-05
12,137	Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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