NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge
Summary: Semantic search over a large encyclopedic knowledge graph (Wikipedia, IMDB, Factbook). Graph-based query language enables expressive semantic queries; generative-LM inspired ranking optimized for confidence, informativeness and compactness; interactive demo with tunable ranking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Gjergji Kasneci (Max Planck Institute)
- 2. Fabian M. Suchanek (Max Planck Institute)
- 3. Georgiana Ifrim (Max Planck Institute)
- 4. Shady Elbassuoni (Max Planck Institute)
- 5. Maya Ramanath (Max Planck Institute)
- 6. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kasneci_sigmod08,
title = {{NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge}},
author = {Kasneci, Gjergji and Suchanek, Fabian M. and Ifrim, Georgiana and Elbassuoni, Shady and Ramanath, Maya and Weikum, Gerhard},
series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376756},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376756},
year = {2008}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 12,513 | Hermes: A Travel through Semantics on the Data Web | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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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