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WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web

Summary: WebTables builds a web-scale corpus of 154M relational tables from 14.1B HTML pages, each a tiny database. It introduces AcsDB for corpus-wide attribute co-occurrence, enabling better search and tools like auto-complete, synonyms, and join traversal. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9695
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00048345996
Overall Rank
108 | 99.26%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 84 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
365 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00025616694
420 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00023700634
488 Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System 2013 CIDR 0.00022029993
514 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00021280726
519 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00021148006
609 Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets 2016 SIGMOD 0.00019223217
814 Finding Related Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00016298739
878 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.000156503
936 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00015197838
1,005 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014694038
1,179 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00013458551
1,185 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013432692
1,221 A Web of Concepts 2009 PODS 0.00013213428
1,266 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012921038
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
1,370 Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords 2012 VLDB 0.00012339543
1,643 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011031534
1,855 An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web 2012 VLDB 0.00010319508
2,142 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 9.4461701e-05
2,161 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 9.4029915e-05
2,267 Ground: A Data Context Service 2017 CIDR 9.1554363e-05
2,324 Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language 2010 SIGMOD 9.0289103e-05
2,422 From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion 2014 VLDB 8.8452901e-05
2,507 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 8.6254741e-05
2,607 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.4615436e-05
2,638 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.3995765e-05
2,737 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.2053894e-05
2,842 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 8.0366354e-05
2,895 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 7.9539265e-05
3,003 Chorus: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration 2024 VLDB 7.7358219e-05
3,163 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4611268e-05
3,232 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.3324293e-05
3,293 Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications 2014 VLDB 7.2598242e-05
3,520 GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables 2023 SIGMOD 7.0136102e-05
3,679 Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 6.8460927e-05
3,693 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.8326441e-05
3,745 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 6.7907837e-05
3,798 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 6.753528e-05
3,827 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.7195959e-05
3,935 Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database 2009 CIDR 6.6130211e-05
3,939 CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding 2013 CIDR 6.6099823e-05
3,968 Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files 2020 VLDB 6.5777452e-05
3,987 A First Tutorial on Dataspaces 2008 VLDB 6.5563129e-05
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
4,228 Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future 2009 CIDR 6.3354352e-05
4,522 A Temporal-Probabilistic Database Model for Information Extraction 2013 VLDB 6.1109228e-05
5,098 ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 5.6943033e-05
5,572 AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things 2020 CIDR 5.4276288e-05
5,662 From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources 2010 PODS 5.3854745e-05
5,929 SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 5.2635297e-05
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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
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
207 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.00034571837
304 Generic Schema Matching with Cupid 2001 VLDB 0.00028282278
994 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00014745808
1,982 Snowball: A Prototype System for Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections 2001 SIGMOD 9.8709804e-05
2,098 Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces 2004 SIGMOD 9.5432874e-05
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