Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration

Summary: Keyword-search data integration avoids a global schema, but must learn ambiguous associations from sparse top-k feedback. The paper actively selects results balancing relevance, score uncertainty, and expected feedback informativeness, validated across diverse real-world domains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10875
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.4484207e-05
Overall Rank: 4,910 | 66.32%
DOI: 10.14778/2535569.2448954

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Authors

1. Zhepeng Yan (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Nan Zheng (University of Pennsylvania)
3. Zachary G. Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Partha Pratim Talukdar (Carnegie Mellon University)
5. Cong Yu (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yan_vldb13,
        title = {{Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration}},
        author = {Yan, Zhepeng and Zheng, Nan and Ives, Zachary G. and Talukdar, Partha Pratim and Yu, Cong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {3},
        pages = {205--216},
        doi = {10.14778/2535569.2448954},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535569.2448954},
        year = {2013}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
272	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022695855
285	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00022365284
302	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021963347
509	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00017220967
528	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.00017100838
714	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00014662041
866	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013519288
3,032	Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries	2008	VLDB	7.8323614e-05
3,651	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	7.2249652e-05
6,931	Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration	2010	SIGMOD	5.736358e-05
7,670	Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases	2011	SIGMOD	5.5709469e-05

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