Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web

Summary: Proposes Knowledge Carousels for knowledge exploration using web tables, with sideways (IS-A) and downward (HAS-A) modalities for entity-seeking queries. Tackles entity-carousel alignment, candidate selection, and descriptive titles; user studies show table-based carousels yield better result sets than baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd88f55653644fd65
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.1763978e-05
Overall Rank: 9,443 | 36.52%
DOI: 10.14778/3149193.3149201

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Fernando Chirigati (New York University)
2. Jialu Liu (Google)
3. Flip Korn (Google)
4. You (Will) Wu (Google)
5. Cong Yu (Google)
6. Hao Zhang (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chirigati_vldb17,
        title = {{Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web}},
        author = {Chirigati, Fernando and Liu, Jialu and Korn, Flip and Wu, You (Will) and Yu, Cong and Zhang, Hao},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {3},
        pages = {193--204},
        doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149201},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149201},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,288	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.4530805e-05
5,031	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.3055788e-05
9,494	Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables	2019	SIGMOD	5.1708619e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 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
1,053	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012274222
1,954	Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need	2014	VLDB	9.31794e-05
3,277	Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications	2014	VLDB	7.4670652e-05
4,806	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.4082256e-05
8,285	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.3624084e-05

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