Data Integration for the Relational Web
Summary: Octopus unifies search, extraction, cleaning, and integration over the Web’s messy relational data, discovering sources at query time. Best-effort Search, Context, and Extend operators exploit page context and user feedback to build integrated datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael J. Cafarella (University of Washington)
- 2. Alon Halevy (Google)
- 3. Nodira Khoussainova (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cafarella_vldb09,
title = {{Data Integration for the Relational Web}},
author = {Cafarella, Michael J. and Halevy, Alon and Khoussainova, Nodira},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687750},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687750},
year = {2009}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00035500667 |
| 95 | Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00034319763 |
| 193 | Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems | 2003 | CIDR | 0.0002567932 |
| 206 | Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00025121652 |
| 231 | Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00023797615 |
| 271 | Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00022566676 |
| 1,336 | Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00010969394 |
| 1,801 | Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach | 2007 | VLDB | 9.5997383e-05 |
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