HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching

Summary: Unsupervised schema matching to integrate many sources into a warehouse schema via clicklogs. HAMSTER uses click-through distributions over keyword-queries to align schema elements; outperforms traditional schema- and instance-based matching. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9841
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.4283499e-05
Overall Rank: 5,571 | 61.25%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Arnab Nandi
2. Philip A. Bernstein

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

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1,178	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00013468118
1,527	Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later	2011	VLDB	0.00011499442
2,078	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.599707e-05
2,730	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.2126735e-05
7,463	Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example	2018	VLDB	4.7232241e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
48	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069720859
150	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00041055843
208	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0003460594
229	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00032242633
303	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00028301477
968	Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001495703
1,147	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00013677658
1,762	Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios	2005	VLDB	0.00010646894
2,788	Incremental Schema Matching	2006	VLDB	8.1251255e-05
3,551	Data Management Projects at Google	2006	SIGMOD	6.9812665e-05
6,272	Content Integration for E-Business	2001	SIGMOD	5.1327853e-05
8,823	The Role of Schema Matching in Large Enterprises	2009	CIDR	4.4415658e-05
8,824	Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability	2008	VLDB	4.4415658e-05

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