Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly

Summary: A lightweight assistant translates queries across dynamically selected, same-domain Deep Web forms. Its novelty is integrating predicate mapping with schema matching and query rewriting in a customizable architecture, validated on real Web sources. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9564
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.7425557e-05
Overall Rank: 6,904 | 52.64%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zhen Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Bin He (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb05,
        title = {{Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly}},
        author = {Zhang, Zhen and He, Bin and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        pages = {97},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,976	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	7.9066299e-05
7,442	Meaningful Labeling of Integrated Query Interfaces	2006	VLDB	5.6171595e-05
10,095	Stop Word and Related Problems in Web Interface Integration	2009	VLDB	5.1528643e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
297	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00022157284
298	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00022138018
645	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00015338713
778	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014102198
791	An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013995705
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
1,953	Clio: A Semi-Automatic Tool For Schema Mapping	2001	SIGMOD	9.4221557e-05
2,554	Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax	2004	SIGMOD	8.4252755e-05
2,595	Infomaster: An Information Integration System	1997	SIGMOD	8.3634727e-05
3,690	Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web	2005	CIDR	7.2007927e-05
4,542	Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS	1998	SIGMOD	6.6395511e-05

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