Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases

Summary: DB selection service builds language models for text databases by sampling query results, removing the need for database-provided models. Carefully chosen queries approximate sampling, yielding accurate models from few queries and documents for GlOSS-driven cross-database discovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3123
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00013777757
Overall Rank: 1,131 | 92.14%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
759	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00017064615
1,492	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00011694396
2,095	Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces	2004	SIGMOD	9.5505068e-05
2,425	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.8376569e-05
3,950	Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases	2001	SIGMOD	6.5953844e-05
5,140	A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases	2007	SIGMOD	5.668209e-05
12,575	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,256	Generalizing GLOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	0.00013022726
3,112	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	7.5472744e-05
3,734	STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching	1997	SIGMOD	6.8095787e-05

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