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Automated Ranking of Database Query Results

Summary: Adapts IR-style relevance ranking to relational DB query results, highlighting integration challenges in scoring, indexing, query optimization, and result diversification for DBMS. Proposes and evaluates several IR-to-DB adaptations and reports preliminary experimental tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
27
Venue
CIDR
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.0002352637
Overall Rank
427 | 97.04%
DOI
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2,009 IO-Top-k: Index-access Optimized Top-k Query Processing 2006 VLDB 9.7977564e-05
2,096 Automatic Categorization of Query Results 2004 SIGMOD 9.5498009e-05
2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
2,794 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1140341e-05
2,989 KLEE: A Framework for Distributed Top-k Query Algorithms 2005 VLDB 7.7733083e-05
3,044 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.6640252e-05
3,197 A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem 2013 VLDB 7.3955829e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0303293e-05
5,399 Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 5.5291067e-05
6,050 Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 5.2360729e-05
6,642 Privacy Implications of Database Ranking 2015 VLDB 4.9794512e-05
6,653 Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By 2007 SIGMOD 4.9735307e-05
6,654 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9733876e-05
6,822 Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results 2012 SIGMOD 4.9152454e-05
12,230 ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,388 Dynamic Active Probing of Helpdesk Databases 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041055843
169 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems 1998 PODS 0.00038895438
470 On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL 1997 SIGMOD 0.00022393068
471 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022364776
707 Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00017782998
1,030 Preference SQL - Design, Implementation, Experiences 2002 VLDB 0.00014557349
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1,789 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010555087
3,664 FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval 2000 VLDB 6.8636265e-05
5,121 Experiences in Mining Aviation Safety Data 2001 SIGMOD 5.6803757e-05
5,122 Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 5.6803757e-05
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