Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks

Summary: Neural-network based semantic matching for heterogeneous DB integration: a classifier labels attributes by field specs and values, then a neural model learns to map equivalents. Discovery from metadata, not pre-programmed rules, yields the correspondences. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8177
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 6.8893259e-05
Overall Rank: 3,638 | 74.72%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wen-Syan Li
2. Chris Clifton

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
915	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015362622
2,428	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.8293516e-05
2,895	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	7.9539265e-05
12,178	Schema-As-You-Go: On Probabilistic Tagging and Querying of Wide Tables	2011	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,861	Data Integration in the Large: The Challenge of Reuse	1994	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
14,092	Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases	1995	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
166	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00039467886
678	Constructing Superviews	1981	SIGMOD	0.0001824315
1,319	Intelligent Integration of Information	1993	SIGMOD	0.00012608305

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