CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding

Summary: Shifts hybrid human–machine focus from data curation to query understanding, using crowdsourcing combined with query-log mining and NLP to infer query structure and entity relationships. Produces reusable query templates to answer classes of questions rather than isolated Q/A. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 189
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.2054029e-05
Overall Rank: 5,474 | 62.45%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Gianluca Demartini (University of Freiburg)
2. Beth Trushkowsky (University of California Berkeley)
3. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
4. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{demartini_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Demartini, Gianluca and Trushkowsky, Beth and Kraska, Tim and Franklin, Michael J.},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,788	A Natural Language Interface for Querying General and Individual Knowledge	2015	VLDB	5.5446256e-05
9,346	DataSift: A Crowd-Powered Search Toolkit	2014	SIGMOD	5.2844452e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
90	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034951786
91	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00034838835
251	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00023261113

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