Personal Information Management with Semex
Summary: Semex enables search-by-association for personal info, extracting objects (Person) and relations (AuthoredBy, Cites) from email, contacts, and documents. Reconciles duplicates, builds a unified object–association repository, enabling cross-device search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yuhan Cai (University of Washington)
- 2. Xin Luna Dong (University of Washington)
- 3. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)
- 4. Jing Michelle Liu (University of Washington)
- 5. Jayant Madhavan (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{cai_sigmod05,
title = {{Personal Information Management with Semex}},
author = {Cai, Yuhan and Dong, Xin Luna and Halevy, Alon and Liu, Jing Michelle and Madhavan, Jayant},
series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066289},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066289},
year = {2005}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 272 | BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00022695855 |
| 2,405 | DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community | 2007 | CIDR | 8.6217909e-05 |
| 3,520 | MashMaker: Mashups for the Masses | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.3502313e-05 |
| 9,828 | Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.2138468e-05 |
| 12,344 | CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records | 2012 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,606 | Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs | 2008 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00023941271 |
| 2,236 | A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration | 2005 | CIDR | 8.8902064e-05 |
| 2,925 | A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 7.9553476e-05 |
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