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A data lake is a repository of data with potential for future analysis. However, both discovering what data is in a data lake and exploring related data sets can take significant effort, as a data lake can contain an intimidating amount of…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Nour Alhammad , Alex Bogatu , Norman W Paton

One of the major challenges in enterprise data analysis is the task of finding joinable tables that are conceptually related and provide meaningful insights. Traditionally, joinable tables have been discovered through a search for similar…

Data lakes enable easy maintenance of heterogeneous data in its native form. While this flexibility can accelerate data ingestion, it shifts the complexity of data preparation and query processing to data discovery tasks. One such task is…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tim Otto

We consider the problem of creating a navigation structure that allows a user to most effectively navigate a data lake. We define an organization as a graph that contains nodes representing sets of attributes within a data lake and edges…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Fatemeh Nargesian , Ken Q. Pu , Bahar Ghadiri Bashardoost , Erkang Zhu , Renée J. Miller

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach that enables geographically distributed data silos to collaboratively learn a joint machine learning model without sharing data. Most of the existing work operates on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

We present ModelTables, a benchmark of tables in Model Lakes that captures the structured semantics of performance and configuration tables often overlooked by text only retrieval. The corpus is built from Hugging Face model cards, GitHub…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengyuan Dong , Victor Zhong , Renée J. Miller

In 2010, the concept of data lake emerged as an alternative to data warehouses for big data management. Data lakes follow a schema-on-read approach to provide rich and flexible analyses. However, although trendy in both the industry and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Pegdwendé Sawadogo , Jérôme Darmont , Camille Noûs

Data discovery - retrieving relevant tables from a data lake in response to user queries - is a fundamental building block for downstream analytics. In practice, data discovery must support different query modalities, including natural…

As a pivotal task in data lake management, joinable table discovery has attracted widespread interest. While existing language model-based methods achieve remarkable performance by combining offline column representation learning with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shiyuan Liu , Jianwei Wang , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

We address the problem of learning a distributed representation of entities in a relational database using a low-dimensional embedding. Low-dimensional embeddings aim to encapsulate a concise vector representation for an underlying dataset…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Siddhant Arora , Srikanta Bedathur

Embedded topic models are able to learn interpretable topics even with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. However, they generally hold the Euclidean embedding space assumption, leading to a basic limitation in capturing hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yishi Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Zhibin Duan , Mingyuan Zhou

Data-driven analysis is important in virtually every modern organization. Yet, most data is underutilized because it remains locked in silos inside of organizations; large organizations have thousands of databases, and billions of files…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Raul Castro Fernandez , Samuel Madden

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Querying and exploring massive collections of data sources, such as data lakes, has been an essential research topic in the database community. Although many efforts have been paid in the field of data discovery and data integration in data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jin Wang , Yanlin Feng , Chen Shen , Sajjadur Rahman , Eser Kandogan

Tabular data comprising rows (samples) with the same set of columns (attributes, is one of the most widely used data-type among various industries, including financial services, health care, research, retail, and logistics, to name a few.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Rajat Singh , Srikanta Bedathur

In recent years, data lakes emerged as away to manage large amounts of heterogeneous data for modern data analytics. One way to prevent data lakes from turning into inoperable data swamps is semantic data management. Some approaches propose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Sayed Hoseini , Johannes Theissen-Lipp , Christoph Quix

The availability of large idea repositories (e.g., the U.S. patent database) could significantly accelerate innovation and discovery by providing people with inspiration from solutions to analogous problems. However, finding useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Tom Hope , Joel Chan , Aniket Kittur , Dafna Shahaf

Data intensive research requires the support of appropriate datasets. However, it is often time-consuming to discover usable datasets matching a specific research topic. We formulate the dataset discovery problem on an attributed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Basmah Altaf , Shichao Pei , Xiangliang Zhang

Tables contain valuable knowledge in a structured form. We employ neural language modeling approaches to embed tabular data into vector spaces. Specifically, we consider different table elements, such caption, column headings, and cells,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Li Deng , Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Within enterprises, there is a growing need to intelligently navigate data lakes, specifically focusing on data discovery. Of particular importance to enterprises is the ability to find related tables in data repositories. These tables can…