Exploration of Deep Web Repositories

Summary: Explores deep web repositories behind keyword, form, hierarchical, and graph interfaces; highlights interface understanding and crawling, sampling, analytics. Proposes taxonomy of interfaces; tradeoffs between analytics and sampling for exploration tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10240
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.3390134e-05
Overall Rank: 9,438 | 34.41%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Nan Zhang
2. Gautam Das

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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5,739	Walk, Not Wait: Faster Sampling Over Online Social Networks	2015	VLDB	5.3454732e-05
8,692	Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources	2023	VLDB	4.4617233e-05

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