Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents
Summary: Metasearch across local text databases uses document linkages to influence database selection via representatives. Presents a necessary-and-sufficient condition for optimal ranking with linkage-aware relevance and a linear-time estimation in the number of query terms; experiments show improved retrieval. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Clement Yu
- 2. Weiyi Meng
- 3. Wensheng Wu
- 4. King-Lup Liu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,683 | Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.3733855e-05 |
| 7,134 | Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems | 2003 | VLDB | 4.8174665e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,057 | Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00014376054 |
| 1,263 | Generalizing GLOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00012971135 |
| 1,910 | Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00010121896 |
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