Reducing Uncertainty of Schema Matching via Crowdsourcing

Summary: Crowdsourcing reduces schema-matching uncertainty via CCQs and dynamic management. Adaptive Single CCQ and Multiple CCQ strategies publish questions within a budget to maximize uncertainty reduction; validated by simulations and real deployment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0663b97ce4f3bcd3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.5072085e-05
Overall Rank: 4,602 | 69.06%
DOI: 10.14778/2501554.2501558

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Authors

1. Chen Jason Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)
4. Chen Caleb Cao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb13,
        title = {{Reducing Uncertainty of Schema Matching via Crowdsourcing}},
        author = {Zhang, Chen Jason and Chen, Lei and Jagadish, H. V. and Cao, Chen Caleb},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {9},
        pages = {757--768},
        doi = {10.14778/2501554.2501558},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2501554.2501558},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,099	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00012037058
3,409	Waldo: An Adaptive Human Interface for Crowd Entity Resolution	2017	SIGMOD	7.3264601e-05
3,839	QASCA: A Quality-Aware Task Assignment System for Crowdsourcing Applications	2015	SIGMOD	6.9921604e-05
4,661	CrowdMatcher: Crowd-Assisted Schema Matching	2014	SIGMOD	6.4816387e-05
6,397	Human-in-the-loop Data Integration	2017	VLDB	5.7989499e-05
6,600	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7403306e-05
7,371	Hear the Whole Story: Towards the Diversity of Opinion in Crowdsourcing Markets	2015	VLDB	5.5407456e-05
7,500	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.5083793e-05
7,884	Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base	2018	SIGMOD	5.4335791e-05
8,282	Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	5.3629192e-05
8,518	Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers	2015	SIGMOD	5.3243701e-05
9,583	CDB: Optimizing Queries with Crowd-Based Selections and Joins	2017	SIGMOD	5.1571823e-05
10,221	gMission: A General Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform	2014	VLDB	5.0580396e-05
12,273	Staging User Feedback toward Rapid Conflict Resolution in Data Fusion	2017	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
92	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034672523
182	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026277842
198	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025555196
259	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00022923243
426	Translating Web Data	2002	VLDB	0.00018483901
715	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014559092
787	Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions	2011	VLDB	0.00013988274
1,667	Bootstrapping Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems	2008	SIGMOD	9.9378851e-05
2,805	MayBMS: A Probabilistic Database Management System	2009	SIGMOD	7.9836802e-05
7,002	FICSR: Feedback-based InConSistency Resolution and Query Processing on Misaligned Data Sources	2007	SIGMOD	5.624639e-05
7,810	Mining Frequent Itemsets over Uncertain Databases	2012	VLDB	5.4488716e-05

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