Answering Web Questions Using Structured Data – Dream or Reality? Panel Discussion

Summary: Panel evaluates structured data in web search: from factual Q&A to broad content organization and IR tradeoffs. Discusses query answering, indexing, and KB/ontology quality, plus integration challenges for scalable, web-scale structured data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9971
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,357 | 14.12%
DOI: -

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1,585	Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00011245609

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