Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web

Summary: Proposes an "entity search engine" for agile, best-effort integration of structured entities from surface and deep Web by locating sources and extracting structured data embedded in unstructured result pages. Advocates a hybrid IR–DB approach—scalable source discovery plus on‑the‑fly extraction and integration (building on MetaQuerier)—to support online structured entity queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 66
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 7.9066299e-05
Overall Rank: 2,976 | 79.59%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tao Cheng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cheng_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Cheng, Tao and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,689	EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically	2007	VLDB	0.00010003102
2,478	Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases	2010	VLDB	8.5223053e-05
2,877	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	8.0070039e-05
6,227	NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	5.9425753e-05
10,872	OpenMEL: Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking Using Noise-Free Expanded Queries and Global Coherence	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,880	PivotE: Revealing and Visualizing the Underlying Entity Structures for Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,801	Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine	2007	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
340	Crawling the Hidden Web	2001	VLDB	0.00020711119
3,690	Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web	2005	CIDR	7.2007927e-05
6,904	Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly	2005	VLDB	5.7425557e-05

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