WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web
Summary: Mines 14.1B web tables to identify 154M high-quality relational datasets—an unprecedented corpus. WebTables adds table-specific search and AcsDB corpus statistics, enabling schema autocomplete, synonym discovery, and join-graph navigation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael J. Cafarella (University of Washington)
- 2. Alon Halevy (Google)
- 3. Daisy Zhe Wang (University of California Berkeley)
- 4. Eugene Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Yang Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cafarella_vldb08,
title = {{WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web}},
author = {Cafarella, Michael J. and Halevy, Alon and Wang, Daisy Zhe and Wu, Eugene and Zhang, Yang},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '08},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {538--549},
doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454166},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454166},
year = {2008}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 50 of 88 citing papers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00047300197 |
| 271 | Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00022566676 |
| 298 | Generic Schema Matching with Cupid | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00021849408 |
| 1,312 | Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00011061014 |
| 2,718 | Snowball: A Prototype System for Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections | 2001 | SIGMOD | 8.0790736e-05 |
| 2,906 | Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces | 2004 | SIGMOD | 7.8706157e-05 |
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