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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,685 | Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web | 2012 | VLDB | 5.9929983e-05 |
| 4,968 | Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness | 2017 | VLDB | 5.7916145e-05 |
| 6,208 | Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries | 2013 | VLDB | 5.1511024e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00065993143 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 302 | BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00028343691 |
| 320 | ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00027574254 |
| 337 | Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00027002505 |
| 351 | FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00026351742 |
| 1,202 | SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.0001333126 |
| 3,116 | Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries | 2008 | VLDB | 7.5404022e-05 |
| 3,671 | Querying Structured Text in an XML Database | 2003 | SIGMOD | 6.853634e-05 |
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