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)
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Authors
- 1. Eugene Agichtein (Columbia University)
- 2. Luis Gravano (Columbia University)
- 3. Jeff Pavel (Columbia University)
- 4. Viktoriya Sokolova (Columbia University)
- 5. Aleksandr Voskoboynik (Columbia University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{agichtein_sigmod01,
title = {{Snowball: A Prototype System for Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections}},
author = {Agichtein, Eugene and Gravano, Luis and Pavel, Jeff and Sokolova, Viktoriya and Voskoboynik, Aleksandr},
series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/375663.375774},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375774},
year = {2001}
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| 91 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00034838835 |
| 4,461 | Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database | 2009 | CIDR | 6.6889881e-05 |
| 6,011 | From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources | 2010 | PODS | 6.0105397e-05 |
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