A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data

Summary: Relational workbench incrementally extracts and queries structure from unstructured data. Demonstrates continuous queryability during processing (Wikipedia proof), enabling incremental evolution of structure and queries within a relational setting. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hae50b411ede72bd9
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.4079432e-05
Overall Rank: 2,477 | 83.35%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eric Chu (University of Wisconsin)
2. Akanksha Baid (University of Wisconsin)
3. Ting Chen (University of Wisconsin)
4. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Jeffrey Naughton (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chu_vldb07,
        title = {{A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data}},
        author = {Chu, Eric and Baid, Akanksha and Chen, Ting and Doan, AnHai and Naughton, Jeffrey},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1045--1056},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

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501	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	0.00017267905
622	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00015484312
5,227	Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	6.2199469e-05
5,410	ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables	2024	VLDB	6.1408676e-05
5,523	A First Tutorial on Dataspaces	2008	VLDB	6.0951795e-05
6,104	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	5.886265e-05
8,287	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.3617357e-05
8,289	Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios	2008	VLDB	5.3614788e-05
8,361	LEAP: LLM-powered End-to-end Automatic Library for Processing Social Science Queries on Unstructured Data	2025	VLDB	5.3474284e-05
10,014	Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data	2009	SIGMOD	5.0970738e-05
10,804	Document-to-Database: Extraction Meets Relational Semantics	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
230	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023871933
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013646923
899	Mapping Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Semantics and Algorithmic Issues	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013186809
991	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012647155
1,056	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012248386
1,794	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	9.6220467e-05
2,204	OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data	2005	VLDB	8.8558582e-05
2,273	A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration	2005	CIDR	8.7118476e-05
2,888	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	7.9072366e-05
4,204	Accessing the Web: From Search to Integration	2006	SIGMOD	6.7358202e-05
4,295	The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets	2007	SIGMOD	6.6809755e-05
7,336	One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.5493249e-05

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