Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks

Summary: Learns semantic correspondences between attributes in heterogeneous databases from field specifications, data values, and metadata. A classifier and neural network discover matching rules from examples rather than relying on hand-coded schema-matching heuristics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h7fa84b48a4414d6f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 7.093474e-05
Overall Rank: 3,692 | 75.18%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wen-Syan Li (Northwestern University)
2. Chris Clifton (Northwestern University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb94,
        title = {{Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks}},
        author = {Li, Wen-Syan and Clifton, Chris},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
822	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013651306
2,092	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	9.0626928e-05
2,417	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.4930877e-05
12,657	Schema-As-You-Go: On Probabilistic Tagging and Querying of Wide Tables	2011	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,335	Data Integration in the Large: The Challenge of Reuse	1994	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
14,588	Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases	1995	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
186	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00025951043
1,073	Constructing Superviews	1981	SIGMOD	0.00012163751
1,611	Intelligent Integration of Information	1993	SIGMOD	0.00010073084

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