Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval
Summary: Avatar Semantic Search combines offline high-precision information extraction with a structured store of facts, concepts, and relationships. At runtime, keywords map to precise structured queries over this semantic store, yielding improved results over traditional keyword search (Enron, blog corpus). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Eser Kandogan (IBM)
- 2. Rajasekar Krishnamurthy (IBM)
- 3. Sriram Raghavan (IBM)
- 4. Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (IBM)
- 5. Huaiyu Zhu (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kandogan_sigmod06,
title = {{Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval}},
author = {Kandogan, Eser and Krishnamurthy, Rajasekar and Raghavan, Sriram and Vaithyanathan, Shivakumar and Zhu, Huaiyu},
series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142591},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142591},
year = {2006}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,689 | EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010003102 |
| 4,494 | Structured Annotations of Web Queries | 2010 | SIGMOD | 6.6624281e-05 |
| 8,329 | Understanding Queries in a Search Database System | 2010 | PODS | 5.4528142e-05 |
| 8,936 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 5.3483178e-05 |
| 12,580 | Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies | 2008 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,684 | Rewrite Rules for Search Database Systems | 2011 | PODS | - |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 399 | XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00019177959 |
| 2,609 | The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents | 2005 | VLDB | 8.3476234e-05 |
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