Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications
Summary: Survey and tutorial on table extraction and understanding for scientific and enterprise docs. From border/cell segmentation to semantic linking with headers, units, captions, and surrounding text, it surveys methods, open problems, and applications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Douglas Burdick (IBM)
- 2. Marina Danilevsky (IBM)
- 3. Alexandre V Evfimievski (IBM)
- 4. Yannis Katsis (IBM)
- 5. Nancy Wang (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{burdick_vldb20,
title = {{Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications}},
author = {Burdick, Douglas and Danilevsky, Marina and Evfimievski, Alexandre V and Katsis, Yannis and Wang, Nancy},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {3433--3436},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415563},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415563},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,068 | ST-Raptor: LLM-Powered Semi-Structured Table Question Answering | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.2283159e-05 |
| 10,598 | AixelAsk: A Stepwise-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning Framework for Large Table QA | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 3,061 | Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.6927483e-05 |
| 3,288 | Ten Years of WebTables | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4530805e-05 |
| 3,588 | Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables | 2004 | SIGMOD | 7.1870903e-05 |
| 8,844 | Creation and Interaction with Large-scale Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases | 2017 | VLDB | 5.2651114e-05 |
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