REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs
Summary: REX defines entity relationship explanation by merging knowledge-base graphs with query-log–driven correlations. It efficiently enumerates and ranks explanations via multiple interestingness measures, validated at scale on DBpedia, with a commercial search-engine dataset and user studies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Lujun Fang
- 2. Anish Das Sarma
- 3. Cong Yu
- 4. Philip Bohannon
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,686 | Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web | 2012 | VLDB | 5.9987806e-05 |
| 4,963 | Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness | 2017 | VLDB | 5.7971866e-05 |
| 6,210 | Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries | 2013 | VLDB | 5.1560547e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00066047203 |
| 276 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029336949 |
| 301 | BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00028370644 |
| 320 | ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00027577867 |
| 336 | Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00027020919 |
| 350 | FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00026365067 |
| 1,201 | SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.0001334371 |
| 3,110 | Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries | 2008 | VLDB | 7.5475982e-05 |
| 3,667 | Querying Structured Text in an XML Database | 2003 | SIGMOD | 6.8602249e-05 |
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| 6,412 | CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web | 2018 | VLDB | 5.0740036e-05 |
| 818 | Finding Related Tables | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00016311524 |
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| 11,054 | Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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