Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search

Summary: Barcelos automatically annotates corporate DB schemas by mining enterprise spreadsheets to extract descriptive keywords for improved search. Unlike web KB approaches, it relies on in-domain sources, delivering high-quality annotations with top-5 precision of 87% in experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hdc34e16c80752880
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 12,430 | 16.43%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824083

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Authors

1. Eli Cortez (Microsoft)
2. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
3. Yeye He (Microsoft)
4. Lev Novik (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cortez_vldb15,
        title = {{Annotating Database Schemas to Help Enterprise Search}},
        author = {Cortez, Eli and Bernstein, Philip A. and He, Yeye and Novik, Lev},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1936--1939},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824083},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824083},
        year = {2015}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,488	Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code	2018	SIGMOD	5.76799e-05
8,144	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	5.3910618e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
65	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.00038222149
89	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035129658
757	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014205602
934	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001300429
1,053	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012274222

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