Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections

Summary: Introduces ad-hoc entity extraction where target entities come from a task-specific list, avoiding full-document processing. Proposes an inverted-index-driven pruning approach that identifies and processes only task-relevant documents, with empirical gains on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9727
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.5405989e-05
Overall Rank: 5,379 | 62.59%
DOI: -

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2,592	Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins	2012	VLDB	8.4795761e-05
3,578	Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints	2009	SIGMOD	6.9503858e-05
4,250	Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text	2016	SIGMOD	6.3241139e-05
4,951	Mining Document Collections to Facilitate Accurate Approximate Entity Matching	2009	VLDB	5.8100413e-05
5,073	Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction	2011	SIGMOD	5.7177424e-05
5,455	Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.4977219e-05
6,580	Query Portals: Dynamically Generating Portals for Entity-Oriented Web Queries	2010	SIGMOD	5.0034092e-05
9,049	JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing	2022	VLDB	4.4039656e-05

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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
250	Efficient set joins on similarity predicates	2004	SIGMOD	0.00030661988
266	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00029718727
759	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00017064615
3,868	An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking	2008	SIGMOD	6.6822543e-05
6,072	Factorizing Complex Predicates in Queries to Exploit Indexes	2003	SIGMOD	5.2257599e-05

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