MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly

Summary: On-the-fly integration and querying of structured deep Web sources without per-source configuration. A type-based, search-driven translation framework plus interface extraction and schema matching enables translating queries across previously unseen query interfaces, mediating across large heterogeneous Web databases dynamically. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb1974e0da71f2611
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.294876e-05
Overall Rank: 8,581 | 42.49%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066291

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Bin He (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Zhen Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{he_sigmod05,
        title = {{MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly}},
        author = {He, Bin and Zhang, Zhen and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066291},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066291},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,692	A Hierarchical Approach to Model Web Query Interfaces for Web Source Integration	2009	VLDB	6.0181521e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
800	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013834019
2,574	Computing Capabilities of Mediators	1999	SIGMOD	8.2573138e-05
2,609	Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax	2004	SIGMOD	8.2052997e-05
2,906	Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces	2004	SIGMOD	7.8706157e-05
2,961	Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	1999	SIGMOD	7.7957135e-05

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