Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language
Summary: Proposes a keyword-based structured query language for web-extracted data graphs, blending keyword search with expressive structured queries over large KBs. Disambiguation via rewriting into the KB vocabulary; rewritings ranked by keyword proximity and semantic coherence, with experiments and QUICK integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jeffrey Pound (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Ihab F. Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
- 3. Grant Weddell (University of Waterloo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{pound_sigmod10,
title = {{Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language}},
author = {Pound, Jeffrey and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Weddell, Grant},
series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807214},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807214},
year = {2010}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,055 | Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00012389274 |
| 2,478 | Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 8.5223053e-05 |
| 3,604 | SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.2666079e-05 |
| 9,588 | IQ: The Case for Iterative Querying for Knowledge | 2011 | CIDR | 5.2521703e-05 |
| 12,451 | QUICK: Expressive and Flexible Search over Knowledge Bases and Text Collections | 2010 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00048017193 |
| 91 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00034838835 |
| 509 | Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00017220967 |
| 974 | To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00012870746 |
| 1,689 | EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010003102 |
| 1,728 | Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge | 2007 | CIDR | 9.9098087e-05 |
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