Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine

Summary: Proposes entity search, a departure from document retrieval, locating data entities (phones, PDFs, dates) instead of pages. Demonstrates a 2TB-scale prototype over the Web (WISDM), validating scalable entity-centric search architecture. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4019
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,801 | 5.32%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247636

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Authors

1. Tao Cheng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Xifeng Yan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cheng_sigmod07,
        title = {{Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine}},
        author = {Cheng, Tao and Yan, Xifeng and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247636},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247636},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,689	EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically	2007	VLDB	0.00010003102

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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
2,976	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	7.9066299e-05

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