Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables
Summary: Mines fun facts from Wikipedia's ranking-based superlative tables with a template-based generator. Automates bootstrap-friendly extraction and maintains template-table mappings to cope with updates; facts are used in production search results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Flip Korn
- 2. Xuezhi Wang
- 3. You Wu
- 4. Cong Yu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,117 | AixelAsk: A Stepwise-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning Framework for Large Table QA | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 668 | Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00018428925 |
| 1,370 | Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00012339543 |
| 1,673 | λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00010940091 |
| 3,163 | Ten Years of WebTables | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4611268e-05 |
| 8,137 | Applying WebTables in Practice | 2015 | CIDR | 4.5733935e-05 |
| 9,017 | Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web | 2017 | VLDB | 4.4052897e-05 |
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| 2,507 | Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.6254741e-05 |
| 8,137 | Applying WebTables in Practice | 2015 | CIDR | 4.5733935e-05 |
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| 5,420 | Mining an "Anti-Knowledge Base" from Wikipedia Updates with Applications to Fact Checking and Beyond | 2020 | VLDB | 5.5154502e-05 |
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