We are excited to announce that our paper “Table Dissolution: Adding Salt To Your Data” was accepted at the Ninth Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) co-located with the International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2025). The paper was the result of the collaboration with SAP.
Authors
Francesco Pugnaloni (Hasso Plattner Institute), Tassilo Klein (SAP SE), and Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Abstract
Corporations continually generate and receive new tabular data whose integration into existing systems is crucial to maximizing business value. However, this integration is challenging due to data heterogeneity and lack of standard formats. Current methods focus on identifying relationships between table pairs, often neglecting table-to-database scenarios. Conventional schema matching techniques map columns between relational schemas but overlook sub-tables that could better align with database elements, limiting their effectiveness. We introduce the task of "table dissolution"': the identification of queries to integrate new tabular data into databases via coherent and semantically meaningful views on the new data. This process allows a fine-grained integration where new data dissolves into a database as salt dissolves into water.
