Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web

Summary: Totally unsupervised end-to-end system builds a target table from a few example rows using unstructured web lists. Retrieves relevant lists, segments records, maps to the query schema with a statistical model, consolidates across lists, and ranks by membership; demonstrates on Wikipedia with 16M lists and ~20s runtime. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9926
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00011245609
Overall Rank: 1,585 | 88.99%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rahul Gupta
2. Sunita Sarawagi

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 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
814	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016298739
1,005	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014694038
1,370	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012339543
1,855	An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web	2012	VLDB	0.00010319508
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
7,590	Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases	2013	VLDB	4.6987033e-05
7,919	DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web	2015	VLDB	4.6123189e-05
8,301	Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction	2012	SIGMOD	4.5392079e-05
12,357	Answering Web Questions Using Structured Data – Dream or Reality? Panel Discussion	2009	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
155	Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning	2003	SIGMOD	0.00040666376
757	Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models	2006	VLDB	0.00017062337
1,316	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00012616422

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