Column2Vec: Structural Understanding via Distributed Representations of Database Schemas

Michael J. Mior, Alexander G. Ororbia II

Abstract: We present Column2Vec, a distributed representation of database columns based on column metadata. Our distributed representation has several applications. Using known names for groups of columns (i.e., a table name), we train a model to generate an appropriate name for columns in an unnamed table. We demonstrate the viability of our approach using schema information collected from open source applications on GitHub.