Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration

Summary: Keyword-search data integration avoids a global schema, but must learn ambiguous associations from sparse top-k feedback. The paper actively selects results balancing relevance, score uncertainty, and expected feedback informativeness, validated across diverse real-world domains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9c4898f3b5042d88
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.3071209e-05
Overall Rank: 5,029 | 66.19%
DOI: 10.14778/2535569.2448954

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Authors

1. Zhepeng Yan (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Nan Zheng (University of Pennsylvania)
3. Zachary G. Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Partha Pratim Talukdar (Carnegie Mellon University)
5. Cong Yu (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yan_vldb13,
        title = {{Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration}},
        author = {Yan, Zhepeng and Zheng, Nan and Ives, Zachary G. and Talukdar, Partha Pratim and Yu, Cong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {3},
        pages = {205--216},
        doi = {10.14778/2535569.2448954},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535569.2448954},
        year = {2013}
}

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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
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010679641
38	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00047394041
81	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00036346781
269	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022620777
270	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022599109
290	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00021955068
293	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021943678
524	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00016909926
534	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001680637
716	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00014553463
888	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013255989
3,088	Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries	2008	VLDB	7.6596008e-05
3,728	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	7.0696128e-05
7,065	Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration	2010	SIGMOD	5.6092852e-05
7,824	Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases	2011	SIGMOD	5.445981e-05

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