EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically
Summary: Introduces entity search as direct, holistic retrieval of fine-grained objects rather than pages. EntityRank’s Impression Model and probabilistic framework combine local and global evidence, validated on a 2TB Web corpus. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Tao Cheng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Xifeng Yan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 3. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cheng_vldb07,
title = {{EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically}},
author = {Cheng, Tao and Yan, Xifeng and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '07},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {387--398},
doi = {10.14778/1325851.1325858},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1325851.1325858},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 316 | Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00021221602 |
| 2,880 | Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.9144548e-05 |
| 6,104 | From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources | 2010 | PODS | 5.886265e-05 |
| 6,568 | Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach | 2013 | VLDB | 5.7466734e-05 |
| 8,287 | Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.3617357e-05 |
| 12,445 | MRCSI: Compressing and Searching String Collections with Multiple References | 2015 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,730 | DoCQS: A Prototype System for Supporting Data-oriented Content Query | 2010 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,784 | Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,760 | Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge | 2007 | CIDR | 9.7106555e-05 |
| 2,888 | DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.9072366e-05 |
| 3,031 | Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web | 2007 | CIDR | 7.7351469e-05 |
| 4,521 | Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval | 2006 | SIGMOD | 6.5623633e-05 |
| 14,112 | Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine | 2007 | SIGMOD | - |
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