Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web
Summary: Proposes an "entity search engine" for agile, best-effort integration of structured entities from surface and deep Web by locating sources and extracting structured data embedded in unstructured result pages. Advocates a hybrid IR–DB approach—scalable source discovery plus on‑the‑fly extraction and integration (building on MetaQuerier)—to support online structured entity queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Tao Cheng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{cheng_cidr07,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '07},
title = {{Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Cheng, Tao and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,711 | EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically | 2007 | VLDB | 9.8182129e-05 |
| 2,472 | Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 8.4125186e-05 |
| 2,888 | DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.9072366e-05 |
| 6,356 | NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge | 2008 | SIGMOD | 5.8092399e-05 |
| 11,275 | OpenMEL: Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking Using Noise-Free Expanded Queries and Global Coherence | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,180 | PivotE: Revealing and Visualizing the Underlying Entity Structures for Exploration | 2019 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 14,112 | Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine | 2007 | SIGMOD | - |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 348 | Crawling the Hidden Web | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00020262145 |
| 3,759 | Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web | 2005 | CIDR | 7.0430209e-05 |
| 7,047 | Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly | 2005 | VLDB | 5.6137121e-05 |
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