On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values

Summary: Opaque column names and data values tackled with a two-step scheme: compute mutual-information correlations to build a dependency graph. Graph matching then aligns nodes; experiments show utility as a semi-automatic complement when traditional name/domain cues fail. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6ee5b7245b8256e7
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00013610136
Overall Rank: 823 | 94.49%
DOI: 10.1145/872757.872783

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Authors

1. Jaewoo Kang (University of Wisconsin)
2. Jeffrey F. Naughton (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kang_sigmod03,
        title = {{On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values}},
        author = {Kang, Jaewoo and Naughton, Jeffrey F.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872783},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872783},
        year = {2003}
}

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184	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026196483
271	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022566676
287	Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022060616
298	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00021849408
466	Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation	1998	VLDB	0.00017746564
1,054	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012253927
2,003	Clio: A Semi-Automatic Tool For Schema Mapping	2001	SIGMOD	9.1888784e-05
3,688	Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks	1994	VLDB	7.0788265e-05
4,810	Information Integration: the MOMIS Project Demonstration	2000	VLDB	6.3909686e-05

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