Semantic Data Systems: From Data Management to Data Understanding

Summary: Proposes semantic understanding as a first-class data-management primitive, complementing syntactic and statistical representations. Envisions LLM-enabled systems that externalize reusable semantic knowledge, combine reasoning with algorithms, incorporate human validation, and expose composable agentic capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)

Paper ID: h3d3612c7340bb264
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 11,038 | 25.79%
DOI: 10.14778/3827998.3838712

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Authors

1. Juliana Freire (New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{freire_vldb26,
        title = {{Semantic Data Systems: From Data Management to Data Understanding}},
        author = {Freire, Juliana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4973--4980},
        doi = {10.14778/3827998.3838712},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3838712},
        year = {2026}
}

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329	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00020858443
377	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00019570264
624	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015479826
694	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014727089
765	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00014125424
1,336	Auctus: A Dataset Search Engine for Data Discovery and Augmentation	2021	VLDB	0.00010988669
1,780	Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models	2022	SIGMOD	9.6560923e-05
1,932	CHORUS: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration	2024	VLDB	9.34643e-05
2,092	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	9.0626928e-05
2,382	DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models	2023	VLDB	8.5458532e-05
3,090	Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries	2021	SIGMOD	7.6584982e-05
4,218	Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching	2025	VLDB	6.7270169e-05
4,589	ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	6.5144711e-05
10,620	AutoDDG: Automated Dataset Description Generation using Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,894	MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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