Schema Summarization

Summary: Formalizes schema summarization around importance and broad information coverage, with algorithms optimizing both under size constraints. Introduces a query-informed quality metric and shows summaries reduce schema-exploration effort for query formulation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9639
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 9.9697258e-05
Overall Rank: 1,702 | 88.33%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Cong Yu (University of Michigan)
2. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yu_vldb06,
        title = {{Schema Summarization}},
        author = {Yu, Cong and Jagadish, H. V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {319--330},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
1,532	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010472227
2,160	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.0607273e-05
2,220	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	8.9277765e-05
2,631	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.3231158e-05
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,572	Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas	2011	VLDB	7.2980153e-05
3,655	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.2226714e-05
4,131	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.8834743e-05
4,228	Discovering Topical Structures of Databases	2008	SIGMOD	6.819835e-05
4,758	Constructing and Exploring Composite Items	2010	SIGMOD	6.521122e-05
5,560	Exploring Schema Repositories with Schemr	2009	SIGMOD	6.1741042e-05
6,201	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.9455064e-05
7,501	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.6029996e-05
7,635	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	5.5769911e-05
9,014	The Role of Schema Matching in Large Enterprises	2009	CIDR	5.3321017e-05
11,084	Exploring Exploratory Querying	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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