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: 3185
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00010239819
Overall Rank: 1,601 | 89.02%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304224

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jamie Callan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. Margaret Connell (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3. Aiqun Du (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{callan_sigmod99,
        title = {{Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases}},
        author = {Callan, Jamie and Connell, Margaret and Du, Aiqun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304224},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304224},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
974	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012870746
1,483	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00010633832
2,372	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.6786716e-05
2,916	Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces	2004	SIGMOD	7.9664495e-05
4,524	Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases	2001	SIGMOD	6.6457031e-05
5,868	A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases	2007	SIGMOD	6.0613238e-05
12,768	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
2,016	Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	9.3030756e-05
4,022	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	6.9498405e-05
5,013	STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching	1997	SIGMOD	6.4005976e-05

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