Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality

Summary: Stitch similar-site web tables into larger, more homogeneous ones before KB/base-table matching to boost alignment. Evaluates T2K Match and COMA; stitching yields 0.38 F1 gain for T2K and 0.14 for COMA, reducing corpus from 5M to ~100k stitched tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hcb6646222a7f121d
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 7.4899241e-05
Overall Rank: 3,254 | 78.13%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137657

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Authors

1. Oliver Lehmberg (University of Mannheim)
2. Christian Bizer (University of Mannheim)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lehmberg_vldb17,
        title = {{Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality}},
        author = {Lehmberg, Oliver and Bizer, Christian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1502--1513},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137657},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137657},
        year = {2017}
}

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Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
694	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014727089
765	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00014125424
1,852	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	9.5004635e-05
1,988	SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search	2023	SIGMOD	9.2482448e-05
2,158	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.941016e-05
4,159	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.7717519e-05
5,276	MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction	2022	VLDB	6.2002884e-05
9,958	Discovering Functional Dependencies through Hitting Set Enumeration	2024	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
11,323	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,512	Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
89	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035129658
316	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00021221602
367	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00019884846
407	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019026291
484	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00017548541
603	A Hybrid Approach to Functional Dependency Discovery	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015699254
717	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00014532116
757	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014205602
801	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001387328
1,146	Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011815973
1,505	Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later	2011	VLDB	0.00010454635
2,417	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.4930877e-05
4,585	DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool	2015	SIGMOD	6.5179286e-05
8,285	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.3624084e-05

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