A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data

Summary: Relational workbench incrementally extracts and queries structure from unstructured data. Demonstrates continuous queryability during processing (Wikipedia proof), enabling incremental evolution of structure and queries within a relational setting. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9705
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.2048095e-05
Overall Rank: 2,724 | 81.32%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Eric Chu (University of Wisconsin)
2. Akanksha Baid (University of Wisconsin)
3. Ting Chen (University of Wisconsin)
4. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Jeffrey Naughton (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chu_vldb07,
        title = {{A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data}},
        author = {Chu, Eric and Baid, Akanksha and Chen, Ting and Doan, AnHai and Naughton, Jeffrey},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1045--1056},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
628	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00015630285
713	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	0.00014672521
5,130	Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	6.354484e-05
5,389	A First Tutorial on Dataspaces	2008	VLDB	6.2346998e-05
6,011	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	6.0105397e-05
6,118	ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables	2024	VLDB	5.9698795e-05
8,109	Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios	2008	VLDB	5.4843869e-05
8,136	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.4810135e-05
9,466	LEAP: LLM-powered End-to-end Automatic Library for Processing Social Science Queries on Unstructured Data	2025	VLDB	5.2634238e-05
9,828	Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data	2009	SIGMOD	5.2138468e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
228	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023941271
884	Mapping Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Semantics and Algorithmic Issues	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013419278
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
969	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012892148
1,038	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012476189
1,848	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	9.6208418e-05
2,172	OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data	2005	VLDB	9.0394311e-05
2,236	A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration	2005	CIDR	8.8902064e-05
2,877	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	8.0070039e-05
4,145	Accessing the Web: From Search to Integration	2006	SIGMOD	6.8738771e-05
4,217	The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets	2007	SIGMOD	6.8269451e-05
7,278	One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.6579198e-05

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