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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
4052
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
7.053581e-05
Overall Rank
3,479 | 75.83%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
653 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00018616975
2,607 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.4615436e-05
2,949 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.8278177e-05
2,974 Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs 2009 SIGMOD 7.7890486e-05
4,384 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.2251088e-05
4,960 Querying Probabilistic Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 5.7992639e-05
6,527 Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 5.0200332e-05
6,793 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 4.9201319e-05
11,983 Which Concepts Are Worth Extracting? 2014 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,060 Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction 2013 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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
103 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00049520051
289 Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates 2007 VLDB 0.00028865317
686 Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems 2008 SIGMOD 0.00018107664
757 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00017062337
1,094 The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice 2004 PODS 0.00014105105
1,716 Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach 2007 VLDB 0.00010772386
2,593 Answering Queries from Statistics and Probabilistic Views 2005 VLDB 8.4758322e-05
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