Applying WebTables in Practice
Summary: Practical deployment of WebTables: scalable filtering to separate data vs. layout/navigation tables and semantic recovery to build a semantically enriched corpus. Corpus powers a 100M+ table structured-data index, Google Docs Research Panel, and richer search snippets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sreeram Balakrishnan (Google)
- 2. Alon Halevy (Google)
- 3. Boulos Harb (Google)
- 4. Hongrae Lee (Google)
- 5. Jayant Madhavan (Google)
- 6. Afshin Rostamizadeh (Google)
- 7. Warren Shen (Google)
- 8. Kenneth Wilder (Google)
- 9. Fei Wu (Google)
- 10. Cong Yu (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{balakrishnan_cidr15,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '15},
title = {{Applying WebTables in Practice}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Balakrishnan, Sreeram and Halevy, Alon and Harb, Boulos and Lee, Hongrae and Madhavan, Jayant and Rostamizadeh, Afshin and Shen, Warren and Wilder, Kenneth and Wu, Fei and Yu, Cong},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 512 | Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00017036842 |
| 2,200 | Data Integration: After the Teenage Years | 2017 | PODS | 8.8631564e-05 |
| 3,231 | Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality | 2017 | VLDB | 7.4899308e-05 |
| 3,247 | Ten Years of WebTables | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4774952e-05 |
| 9,482 | Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web | 2017 | VLDB | 5.1568391e-05 |
| 9,534 | Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.151324e-05 |
| 10,216 | Adaptive Schema Databases | 2017 | CIDR | 5.0468526e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00035500667 |
| 367 | InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00019882429 |
| 753 | Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00014228161 |
| 1,037 | Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00012357454 |
| 2,289 | Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web | 2013 | VLDB | 8.6813411e-05 |
| 3,289 | Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications | 2014 | VLDB | 7.4395547e-05 |
| 4,830 | Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers | 2014 | VLDB | 6.3840861e-05 |
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