Information Discovery in Loosely Integrated Data

Summary: Models heterogeneous sources as a labeled data graph with typed nodes/edges. Introduces a relationship search operator (ObjectRank-based) that ranks objects related to a filter via link structure and builds summary graphs for results and reuse. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3959
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
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Overall Rank: 13,615 | 5.38%
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320	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00027574254
2,551	GORDIAN: Efficient and Scalable Discovery of Composite Keys	2006	VLDB	8.5553153e-05

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