Provenance Summaries for Answers and Non-Answers
Summary: Provenance capture limited to explanations for a specific (missing) result, addressing why-not and why provenance scalability. PUG applies sampling-based summarization to produce compact explanations for (non)answers, enabling scalable, actionable insights on real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Seokki Lee (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 2. Bertram Ludäscher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 3. Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lee_vldb18,
title = {{Provenance Summaries for Answers and Non-Answers}},
author = {Lee, Seokki and Ludäscher, Bertram and Glavic, Boris},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {12},
pages = {1954--1957},
doi = {10.14778/3229863.3236233},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3236233},
year = {2018}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,488 | Approximate Summaries for Why and Why-not Provenance | 2020 | VLDB | 5.7659318e-05 |
| 8,490 | Provenance-based Data Skipping | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3302146e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00059813669 |
| 578 | The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00016093679 |
| 878 | Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013296412 |
| 2,069 | Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries | 2010 | VLDB | 9.0884616e-05 |
| 4,684 | Provenance for Natural Language Queries | 2017 | VLDB | 6.4692258e-05 |
| 6,712 | Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries | 2015 | VLDB | 5.70009e-05 |
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