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Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces

Summary: MetaQuerier unifies deep Web query interfaces into a single domain API, translating queries to site forms. Key ideas: automatic interface extraction, holistic multi-schema matching under a hidden-syntax model, enabling scalable unified interfaces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h754aad654d666907
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
7.8643473e-05
Overall Rank
2,913 | 80.42%
DOI
10.1145/1007568.1007691

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{he_sigmod04,
        title = {{Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces}},
        author = {He, Bin and Zhang, Zhen and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007691},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007691},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
89 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00035129658
3,759 Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web 2005 CIDR 7.0430209e-05
8,556 MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly 2005 SIGMOD 5.3149583e-05
8,868 WISE-Integrator: A System for Extracting and Integrating Complex Web Search Interfaces of the Deep Web 2005 VLDB 5.2603262e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
801 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001387328
1,631 Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010022634
1,655 Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet 1998 VLDB 9.9733472e-05
2,599 Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax 2004 SIGMOD 8.2364103e-05
2,661 WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce 2003 VLDB 8.1602863e-05
4,610 Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases 2001 SIGMOD 6.5030302e-05
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