Snowball: A Prototype System for Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections

Summary: Snowball is a prototype system that extracts organization–location relations from large text collections, producing a structured relation (a materialized view) over unstructured documents. An interactive, low-human-participation demo that builds on Brin's DIPRE approach to iterative extraction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3318
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 9.8785341e-05
Overall Rank: 1,980 | 86.23%
DOI: -

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5,652	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	5.3903671e-05

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