A framework for annotating CSV-like data

Summary: Framework to annotate CSV-like data and noisy variants with metadata via an extended regex selection language and annotation rules. The approach yields an output-sensitive, input-linear evaluator; real-data experiments confirm practical efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hea3fad21699d437f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.5980734e-05
Overall Rank: 7,152 | 51.92%
DOI: 10.14778/2983200.2983208

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Marcelo Arenas (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
2. Francisco Maturana (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
3. Cristian Riveros (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
4. Domagoj Vrgoč (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

BibTeX Citation

@article{arenas_vldb16,
        title = {{A framework for annotating CSV-like data}},
        author = {Arenas, Marcelo and Maturana, Francisco and Riveros, Cristian and Vrgoč, Domagoj},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {11},
        pages = {876--887},
        doi = {10.14778/2983200.2983208},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2983200.2983208},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,404	Document Spanners for Extracting Incomplete Information: Expressiveness and Complexity	2018	PODS	8.5180234e-05
2,670	Constant Delay Algorithms for Regular Document Spanners	2018	PODS	8.1505269e-05
4,244	Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files	2020	VLDB	6.7067197e-05
7,910	Pollock: A Data Loading Benchmark	2023	VLDB	5.4284527e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
328	Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates	2007	VLDB	0.00020928928
525	An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00016890994
1,759	Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management	2003	SIGMOD	9.7107065e-05

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