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Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax

Summary: Models web query forms as a visual language with a hidden, shared syntax guiding interface construction. Introduces a 2P grammar and best-effort parser to derive this syntax and extract query conditions, achieving ~85% accuracy across random sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3511
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
8.9582251e-05
Overall Rank
2,362 | 83.57%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,095 Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces 2004 SIGMOD 9.5505068e-05
3,724 Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web 2005 CIDR 6.8173288e-05
5,774 A Hierarchical Approach to Model Web Query Interfaces for Web Source Integration 2009 VLDB 5.3313642e-05
6,792 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 4.9249098e-05
6,827 Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly 2005 VLDB 4.9137918e-05
7,422 Meaningful Labeling of Integrated Query Interfaces 2006 VLDB 4.7343948e-05
8,154 MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly 2005 SIGMOD 4.5745458e-05
8,460 WISE-Integrator: A System for Extracting and Integrating Complex Web Search Interfaces of the Deep Web 2005 VLDB 4.5061526e-05
8,878 Learning to Extract Form Labels 2008 VLDB 4.4302126e-05
9,432 Aggregate Estimation Over Dynamic Hidden Web Databases 2014 VLDB 4.3431757e-05
9,548 Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web 2012 VLDB 4.3258142e-05
9,549 Attribute Domain Discovery for Hidden Web Databases 2011 SIGMOD 4.3258142e-05
12,260 Deep Web Integration with VisQI 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,563 Database-Inspired Search 2005 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
234 Crawling the Hidden Web 2001 VLDB 0.00032018108
533 RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites 2001 VLDB 0.00020757722
587 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.00019648348
902 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.00015486247
2,447 WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce 2003 VLDB 8.8037197e-05
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