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Toward Best-Effort Information Extraction

Summary: Proposes iFlex, best-effort IE for rapid, approximate results. Declarative language with possible-worlds semantics; approximate query processor; and an automatic next-effort assistant that suggests refinements to iteratively raise precision. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4051
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
7.0583481e-05
Overall Rank
3,477 | 75.82%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
652 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00018634477
2,617 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.4462621e-05
2,947 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.834316e-05
2,984 Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs 2009 SIGMOD 7.7796344e-05
4,387 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.2320072e-05
4,983 Querying Probabilistic Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 5.7870787e-05
6,534 Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 5.0244622e-05
6,792 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 4.9249098e-05
11,975 Which Concepts Are Worth Extracting? 2014 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,052 Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction 2013 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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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
101 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.0004955674
287 Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates 2007 VLDB 0.00028971272
692 Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems 2008 SIGMOD 0.00018083948
760 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00017053935
1,095 The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice 2004 PODS 0.00014126427
1,722 Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach 2007 VLDB 0.00010757784
2,590 Answering Queries from Statistics and Probabilistic Views 2005 VLDB 8.483194e-05
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