Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web

Summary: Demo of PATTY: a system that learns semantic relations from Web text, creating a WordNet-like ontology for relations. Its typed relations enable advanced SP-O queries and semantic search over text and tables, reflecting Web data enrichment trends. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10640
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 6.2318753e-05
Overall Rank: 5,400 | 62.96%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367553

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Authors

1. Ndapandula Nakashole (Max Planck Institute)
2. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
3. Fabian Suchanek (Max Planck Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nakashole_vldb12,
        title = {{Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web}},
        author = {Nakashole, Ndapandula and Weikum, Gerhard and Suchanek, Fabian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1982},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367553},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367553},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,981	Natural Language Question Answering over RDF — A Graph Data Driven Approach	2014	SIGMOD	6.9746167e-05
5,568	Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness	2017	VLDB	6.1708873e-05
5,999	Exploratory Querying of Extended Knowledge Graphs	2016	VLDB	6.0137042e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
908	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.00013300624
4,736	REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs	2012	VLDB	6.5300642e-05

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