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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
0.00035768129
Overall Rank
87 | 99.40%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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313 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00021628383
363 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00020185231
407 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019103844
483 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00017758866
504 Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets 2016 SIGMOD 0.00017409807
510 Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System 2013 CIDR 0.00017339725
739 Finding Related Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00014539836
741 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014502558
749 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00014389498
771 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014215821
865 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00013570692
1,062 Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords 2012 VLDB 0.00012454497
1,088 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.00012326497
1,205 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011775955
1,304 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011315511
1,308 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011301511
1,547 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 0.00010451676
1,843 A Web of Concepts 2009 PODS 9.7180374e-05
1,882 Ground: A Data Context Service 2017 CIDR 9.645625e-05
2,065 An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web 2012 VLDB 9.2951621e-05
2,204 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 9.0243843e-05
2,216 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.0031577e-05
2,249 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.936583e-05
2,333 From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion 2014 VLDB 8.8184201e-05
2,348 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.790817e-05
2,364 Chorus: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration 2024 VLDB 8.7622416e-05
2,447 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.6362051e-05
2,650 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 8.3702577e-05
2,782 Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language 2010 SIGMOD 8.1917378e-05
2,888 GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables 2023 SIGMOD 8.0622723e-05
3,095 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 7.8339749e-05
3,136 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.7742921e-05
3,163 Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications 2014 VLDB 7.7495539e-05
3,175 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 7.7393361e-05
3,244 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.6761373e-05
3,267 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.6464479e-05
3,290 Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 7.6161829e-05
3,537 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 7.3911038e-05
3,856 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 7.1223283e-05
4,104 Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files 2020 VLDB 6.9603671e-05
4,389 Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database 2009 CIDR 6.7922275e-05
4,412 Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future 2009 CIDR 6.7800922e-05
4,446 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.7540161e-05
4,455 ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 6.7496546e-05
4,650 A Temporal-Probabilistic Database Model for Information Extraction 2013 VLDB 6.6478057e-05
5,358 A First Tutorial on Dataspaces 2008 VLDB 6.3211656e-05
5,398 CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding 2013 CIDR 6.301505e-05
5,494 AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things 2020 CIDR 6.2659461e-05
5,674 DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database 2014 VLDB 6.1908158e-05
5,969 SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 6.0867104e-05
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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
36 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00048828554
254 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.00023381839
286 Generic Schema Matching with Cupid 2001 VLDB 0.00022480162
1,285 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00011423755
2,670 Snowball: A Prototype System for Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections 2001 SIGMOD 8.3342658e-05
2,834 Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces 2004 SIGMOD 8.1176645e-05
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