Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach

Summary: Solo enables natural-language data discovery with self-supervised training, no labeled data needed. It develops self-supervised data generation, table representations, and relevance models for end-to-end learned discovery that outperforms baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6763
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.6319504e-05
Overall Rank: 7,868 | 45.27%
DOI: 10.1145/3626756

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Qiming Wang
2. Raul Castro Fernandez

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,995	How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management	2023	VLDB	6.5513237e-05
6,217	Pneuma: Leveraging LLMs for Tabular Data Representation and Retrieval in an End-to-End System	2025	SIGMOD	5.1534752e-05
9,928	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	4.2511622e-05
10,064	Cut Costs, Not Accuracy: LLM-Powered Data Processing with Guarantees	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,197	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,589	Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
107	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048377684
276	Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00029336949
610	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019232674
1,644	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011041787
1,751	Auctus: A Dataset Search Engine for Data Discovery and Augmentation	2021	VLDB	0.00010683295
4,967	Leva: Boosting Machine Learning Performance with Relational Embedding Data Augmentation	2022	SIGMOD	5.7956612e-05

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