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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
4113
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
7.6322141e-05
Overall Rank
3,216 | 77.94%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376718

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shen_sigmod08,
        title = {{Toward Best-Effort Information Extraction}},
        author = {Shen, Warren and DeRose, Pedro and McCann, Robert and Doan, AnHai and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376718},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376718},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
628 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00015630285
2,322 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.7526172e-05
3,502 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.3592947e-05
3,843 Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs 2009 SIGMOD 7.0791732e-05
4,055 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.9349546e-05
4,752 Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.5235308e-05
4,935 Querying Probabilistic Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.4357418e-05
6,931 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 5.736358e-05
12,173 Which Concepts Are Worth Extracting? 2014 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,250 Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction 2013 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
78 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00036571789
319 Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates 2007 VLDB 0.00021377065
680 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.0001504854
866 Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013519288
1,131 The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice 2004 PODS 0.00012044716
1,848 Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach 2007 VLDB 9.6208418e-05
2,687 Answering Queries from Statistics and Probabilistic Views 2005 VLDB 8.2579315e-05
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