A Demo of Interactive Thematic Data Collection on the Live Web

Summary: An interactive, human-in-the-loop system for long-horizon thematic web collection, rather than one-shot question answering. Multi-agent focused crawling combines relevance assessment, query generation, frontier exploration, and dynamic re-seeding to reach disjoint web regions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)

Paper ID: h16678d508b9ceae1
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 10,964 | 26.29%
DOI: 10.14778/3827998.3828064

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Authors

1. Michael West (Temple University)
2. Eduard Dragut (Temple University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{west_vldb26,
        title = {{A Demo of Interactive Thematic Data Collection on the Live Web}},
        author = {West, Michael and Dragut, Eduard},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4554--4557},
        doi = {10.14778/3827998.3828064},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3828064},
        year = {2026}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
89	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035129658
1,265	Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs	2000	VLDB	0.00011272973

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