Structures, Semantics and Statistics

Summary: Statistics over large sets of data schemas reveal semantic hints and enable mappings across structures for data integration. The approach generalizes to search in complex structure spaces and enables on-the-fly, next-generation data integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h60171c4b1a2e0f89
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.0611832e-05
Overall Rank: 10,201 | 31.42%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50003-6

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alon Y. Halevy (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@article{halevy_vldb04,
        title = {{Structures, Semantics and Statistics}},
        author = {Halevy, Alon Y.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50003-6},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50003-6},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,984	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.8741188e-05

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
24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055043581
190	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00025768763
269	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022620777
801	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001387328
1,567	Crossing the Structure Chasm	2003	CIDR	0.00010213092
1,759	Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management	2003	SIGMOD	9.7107065e-05
7,119	Similarity Search for Web Services	2004	VLDB	5.601767e-05

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