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Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases

Summary: Presents a declarative language combining human-computable functions, relational operators, and algorithms, letting the system manage task issuance, answer reconciliation, and DB integration. Analyzes optimization under human-in-the-loop tradeoffs (cost, latency, uncertainty) and methods to fuse human and algorithmic evidence. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h239caf6dd44aae4d
Venue
CIDR
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00022923243
Overall Rank
259 | 98.27%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{parameswaran_cidr11,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '11},
        title = {{Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Parameswaran, Aditya and Polyzotis, Neoklis},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 26 of 26 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
92 CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing 2011 SIGMOD 0.00034672523
257 Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People 2011 CIDR 0.00022962347
266 Human-powered Sorts and Joins 2012 VLDB 0.00022739124
787 Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions 2011 VLDB 0.00013988274
987 CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012660627
1,043 Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012335114
1,264 CDAS: A Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System 2012 VLDB 0.0001128316
1,654 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 9.9739611e-05
1,926 Counting with the Crowd 2013 VLDB 9.3637786e-05
2,192 Demonstration of Qurk: A Query Processor for Human Operators 2011 SIGMOD 8.8821872e-05
2,653 CrowdFill: Collecting Structured Data from the Crowd 2014 SIGMOD 8.1732164e-05
2,832 Crowd Mining 2013 SIGMOD 7.9590386e-05
3,197 iCrowd: An Adaptive Crowdsourcing Framework 2015 SIGMOD 7.5455503e-05
3,372 Finish Them!: Pricing Algorithms for Human Computation 2014 VLDB 7.3693102e-05
4,602 Reducing Uncertainty of Schema Matching via Crowdsourcing 2013 VLDB 6.5072085e-05
4,787 Hybrid Querying Over Relational Databases and Large Language Models 2025 CIDR 6.4143303e-05
5,250 An Online Cost Sensitive Decision-Making Method in Crowdsourcing Systems 2013 SIGMOD 6.2097153e-05
5,466 Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective 2011 VLDB 6.1202777e-05
5,878 CyLog/Crowd4U: A Declarative Platform for Complex Data-centric Crowdsourcing 2012 VLDB 5.9621423e-05
6,220 GenEdit: Compounding Operators and Continuous Improvement to Tackle Text-to-SQL in the Enterprise 2025 CIDR 5.8469622e-05
6,880 Estimating the Impact of Unknown Unknowns on Aggregate Query Results 2016 SIGMOD 5.6573214e-05
7,089 Answering Planning Queries with the Crowd 2013 VLDB 5.6018191e-05
7,371 Hear the Whole Story: Towards the Diversity of Opinion in Crowdsourcing Markets 2015 VLDB 5.5407456e-05
7,782 Pushing the Boundaries of Crowd-enabled Databases with Query-driven Schema Expansion 2012 VLDB 5.4535412e-05
8,137 Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection 2014 VLDB 5.3924339e-05
8,952 CrowdMiner: Mining association rules from the crowd 2013 VLDB 5.252096e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076195956
125 Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates 1993 SIGMOD 0.00030470848
126 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00030439683
689 Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions 1993 VLDB 0.00014752546
696 MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014697176
787 Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions 2011 VLDB 0.00013988274
814 An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013719268
888 Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013255989
970 On the Representation and Querying of Sets of Possible Worlds 1987 SIGMOD 0.00012772086
3,915 Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs 2009 SIGMOD 6.9290474e-05
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