Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach

Summary: Top-down, compositional, incremental portal construction for structured web portals; select a few sources and apply plan-based extraction/integration. DBLife: rapid, accurate portal assembly with simple operators, enabling easy incremental growth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h1eeef0cb82460dc1
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 9.5997383e-05
Overall Rank: 1,801 | 87.93%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Pedro DeRose (University of Wisconsin)
2. Warren Shen (University of Wisconsin)
3. Fei Chen (University of Wisconsin)
4. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{derose_vldb07,
        title = {{Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach}},
        author = {DeRose, Pedro and Shen, Warren and Chen, Fei and Doan, AnHai and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        volume = {30},
        pages = {399--410},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
330	Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates	2007	VLDB	0.00020870379
484	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00017535511
494	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	0.00017350554
624	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00015438077
1,927	A Web of Concepts	2009	PODS	9.3492587e-05
2,135	An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web	2012	VLDB	8.9793548e-05
2,440	Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches	2013	SIGMOD	8.4506851e-05
2,479	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.3884752e-05
3,285	Toward Best-Effort Information Extraction	2008	SIGMOD	7.4430978e-05
3,543	Multidimensional Content eXploration	2008	VLDB	7.1968304e-05
3,700	OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints	2007	VLDB	7.0668135e-05
3,924	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	6.9044317e-05
4,573	Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database	2009	CIDR	6.5145852e-05
5,390	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	6.1365979e-05
6,091	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	5.8724947e-05
7,183	Just-in-time Data Integration in Action	2010	VLDB	5.5757293e-05
8,467	Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction	2012	SIGMOD	5.3148581e-05
10,055	Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data	2009	SIGMOD	5.0779842e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
264	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.0002276412
330	Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates	2007	VLDB	0.00020870379
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
998	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012590871
2,471	DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community	2007	CIDR	8.4007363e-05
2,898	Seeking Stable Clusters in the Blogosphere	2007	VLDB	7.8834676e-05
3,631	MOMA - A Mapping-based Object Matching System	2007	CIDR	7.1281012e-05
5,333	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	6.1620895e-05

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