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Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web

Summary: A system annotates Web tables with column classes and binary relationships mined from a broad but noisy Web-derived knowledge base. Its formal evidence model outperforms majority voting, enabling substantially better table search and related-table discovery. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
ha3fc12a812691a87
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014228161
Overall Rank
753 | 94.96%
DOI
10.14778/2002938.2002942

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BibTeX Citation

@article{venetis_vldb11,
        title = {{Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web}},
        author = {Venetis, Petros and Halevy, Alon and Madhavan, Jayant and Pasca, Marius and Shen, Warren and Wu, Fei and Miao, Gengxin and Wu, Chung},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {9},
        pages = {528--539},
        doi = {10.14778/2002938.2002942},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2002938.2002942},
        year = {2011}
}

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367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019882429
705 Finding Related Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00014626858
758 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00014200657
1,099 KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing 2015 SIGMOD 0.00012008783
1,268 Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011243615
1,325 LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search 2016 VLDB 0.000110184
1,690 Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models 2022 SIGMOD 9.8426663e-05
1,742 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.7283207e-05
1,929 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 9.3458857e-05
1,985 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 9.2378767e-05
2,289 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.6813411e-05
2,940 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.8206062e-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
3,257 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.4732058e-05
3,289 Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications 2014 VLDB 7.4395547e-05
3,897 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.9202872e-05
4,830 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.3840861e-05
5,383 SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas 2024 SIGMOD 6.1379374e-05
6,676 Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications 2020 VLDB 5.6964661e-05
7,027 An Efficient Publish/Subscribe Index for E-Commerce Databases 2014 VLDB 5.6014394e-05
7,728 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.4515436e-05
7,787 RECA: Related Tables Enhanced Column Semantic Type Annotation Framework 2023 VLDB 5.4356666e-05
8,175 PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage 2020 VLDB 5.3689261e-05
8,303 Applying WebTables in Practice 2015 CIDR 5.3430314e-05
8,429 In-Network Leaderless Replication for Distributed Data Stores 2022 VLDB 5.3169161e-05
11,651 Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,436 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
12,451 Demonstrating "Data Near Here": Scientific Data Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,479 Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search 2015 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,509 Mining Latent Entity Structures from Massive Unstructured and Interconnected Data 2014 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,565 D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time 2013 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
12,582 Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era 2013 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 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
314 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.0002126519
484 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00017535511
1,336 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00010969394
1,694 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract] 2009 VLDB 9.8374023e-05
3,545 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.1958817e-05
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