Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web

Summary: Demo of PATTY: a system that learns semantic relations from Web text, creating a WordNet-like ontology for relations. Its typed relations enable advanced SP-O queries and semantic search over text and tables, reflecting Web data enrichment trends. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h7273fd2aed2e16e7
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 6.0920872e-05
Overall Rank: 5,536 | 62.78%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367553

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ndapandula Nakashole (Max Planck Institute)
2. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
3. Fabian Suchanek (Max Planck Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nakashole_vldb12,
        title = {{Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web}},
        author = {Nakashole, Ndapandula and Weikum, Gerhard and Suchanek, Fabian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1982},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367553},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367553},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,080	Natural Language Question Answering over RDF — A Graph Data Driven Approach	2014	SIGMOD	6.8181487e-05
5,697	Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness	2017	VLDB	6.032935e-05
6,125	Exploratory Querying of Extended Knowledge Graphs	2016	VLDB	5.8787728e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
934	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001300429
4,842	REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs	2012	VLDB	6.3841337e-05

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