The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem
Summary: GLOSS estimates query and database result sizes to solve the text database discovery problem, ranking candidate databases by relevance. Evaluated on real user query traces and analyzed storage costs to assess effectiveness and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,131 | Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00013777757 |
| 1,256 | Generalizing GLOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00013022726 |
| 3,170 | Quality-driven Integration of Heterogeneous Information Systems | 1999 | VLDB | 7.4482367e-05 |
| 3,734 | STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching | 1997 | SIGMOD | 6.8095787e-05 |
| 12,267 | An Access Cost-Aware Approach for Object Retrieval over Multiple Sources | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
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