EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically

Summary: Introduces entity search as direct, holistic retrieval of fine-grained objects rather than pages. EntityRank’s Impression Model and probabilistic framework combine local and global evidence, validated on a 2TB Web corpus. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9783
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 0.00010003102
Overall Rank: 1,689 | 88.42%
DOI: 10.14778/1325851.1325858

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Authors

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

BibTeX Citation

@article{cheng_vldb07,
        title = {{EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically}},
        author = {Cheng, Tao and Yan, Xifeng and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {387--398},
        doi = {10.14778/1325851.1325858},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1325851.1325858},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
317	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00021402049
2,832	Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language	2010	SIGMOD	8.0783003e-05
6,011	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	6.0105397e-05
6,466	Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach	2013	VLDB	5.871262e-05
8,136	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.4810135e-05
12,154	MRCSI: Compressing and Searching String Collections with Multiple References	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,439	DoCQS: A Prototype System for Supporting Data-oriented Content Query	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,494	Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,728	Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge	2007	CIDR	9.9098087e-05
2,877	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	8.0070039e-05
2,976	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	7.9066299e-05
4,433	Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval	2006	SIGMOD	6.7082016e-05
13,801	Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine	2007	SIGMOD	-

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