Schema Summarization

Summary: Formalizes schema summarization around importance and broad information coverage, with algorithms optimizing both under size constraints. Introduces a query-informed quality metric and shows summaries reduce schema-exploration effort for query formulation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hf9e14fd6cf758984
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 9.7551427e-05
Overall Rank: 1,733 | 88.35%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Cong Yu (University of Michigan)
2. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yu_vldb06,
        title = {{Schema Summarization}},
        author = {Yu, Cong and Jagadish, H. V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {319--330},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
319	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021164857
1,558	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010257165
2,203	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	8.8609567e-05
2,262	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	8.7333724e-05
2,679	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.1453935e-05
3,003	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.7645915e-05
3,625	Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas	2011	VLDB	7.1526073e-05
3,723	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.0706017e-05
4,208	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.7339511e-05
4,306	Discovering Topical Structures of Databases	2008	SIGMOD	6.6754157e-05
4,851	Constructing and Exploring Composite Items	2010	SIGMOD	6.3806424e-05
5,690	Exploring Schema Repositories with Schemr	2009	SIGMOD	6.0355739e-05
6,331	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.8121052e-05
7,643	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.4772833e-05
7,791	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	5.4518584e-05
9,170	The Role of Schema Matching in Large Enterprises	2009	CIDR	5.2141009e-05
9,362	Exploring Exploratory Querying	2025	VLDB	5.1868213e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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