Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords

Summary: Web tables as structured corpus; solve per-column keyword queries via joint table alignment. Introduces a query-segmentation model and content-overlap cues; uses bipartite matching and constrained graph cuts for joint labeling; validated on 25M tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3bdf234a027ab1d1
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00012274222
Overall Rank: 1,053 | 92.93%
DOI: 10.14778/2336664.2336665

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rakesh Pimplikar (IBM)
2. Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pimplikar_vldb12,
        title = {{Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords}},
        author = {Pimplikar, Rakesh and Sarawagi, Sunita},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {10},
        pages = {908--919},
        doi = {10.14778/2336664.2336665},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2336664.2336665},
        year = {2012}
}

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624	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015479826
765	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00014125424
1,272	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011248674
1,293	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011149857
1,318	LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search	2016	VLDB	0.00011047393
2,158	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.941016e-05
2,351	Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web	2013	VLDB	8.5928057e-05
2,926	Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation	2020	SIGMOD	7.8442582e-05
3,245	InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables	2013	SIGMOD	7.4957822e-05
3,288	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.4530805e-05
4,171	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.7608137e-05
4,244	Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files	2020	VLDB	6.7067197e-05
4,409	LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	6.6120807e-05
4,806	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.4082256e-05
5,414	Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets	2022	VLDB	6.1399858e-05
7,208	Dataset Relationship Management	2019	CIDR	5.584745e-05
7,415	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.5332662e-05
7,709	Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases	2013	VLDB	5.4717883e-05
8,285	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.3624084e-05
8,736	Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment	2019	SIGMOD	5.2904354e-05
9,443	Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web	2017	VLDB	5.1763978e-05
9,494	Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables	2019	SIGMOD	5.1708619e-05
10,499	Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,598	Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,387	Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration	2015	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,430	Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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
89	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035129658
484	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00017548541
1,697	Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract]	2009	VLDB	9.8545388e-05
2,880	Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language	2010	SIGMOD	7.9144548e-05
4,567	Structured Annotations of Web Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.530229e-05

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