Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity

Summary: WHIRL: a data integration logic that reasons about local-name similarity instead of normalization to a global domain, enabling flexible mappings. Leverages vector-space similarity on natural-language names and deploys a scalable integration system that merges many sites across two domains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3070
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.6803757e-05
Overall Rank: 5,122 | 64.37%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. William W. Cohen

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
427	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.0002352637
1,992	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8462684e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044642203
150	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00041055843
274	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00029390022
532	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.00020778506
1,669	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	0.00010955767
3,627	The Distributed Information Search Component (DISCO) and the World Wide Web	1997	SIGMOD	6.9034006e-05

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