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: 3124
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00013765547
Overall Rank: 1,133 | 92.13%
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	0.00017041917
1,486	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00011691409
2,098	Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces	2004	SIGMOD	9.5432874e-05
2,428	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.8293516e-05
3,956	Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases	2001	SIGMOD	6.5891156e-05
5,141	A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases	2007	SIGMOD	5.6627467e-05
12,584	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
1,263	Generalizing GLOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	0.00012971135
3,118	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	7.5400934e-05
3,737	STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching	1997	SIGMOD	6.8030747e-05

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