Automatic Categorization of Query Results

Summary: Dynamic, labeled hierarchical categorization of SQL query results to curb information overload. Models user overload, treats categorization as a min-cost optimization, and uses heuristics to generate relevant categories for targeted exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3627
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.959723e-05
Overall Rank: 2,204 | 84.89%
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007653

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kaushik Chakrabarti (Microsoft)
2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
3. Seung-won Hwang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chakrabarti_sigmod04,
        title = {{Automatic Categorization of Query Results}},
        author = {Chakrabarti, Kaushik and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Hwang, Seung-won},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007653},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007653},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,526	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010491673
1,725	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	9.9197083e-05
5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.1514e-05
6,815	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD	5.7652375e-05
7,021	Budget Constrained Interactive Search for Multiple Targets	2021	VLDB	5.7242766e-05
7,406	Supporting OLAP Operations over Imperfectly Integrated Taxonomies	2008	SIGMOD	5.6243865e-05
8,223	Query Expansion Based on Clustered Results	2011	VLDB	5.4631602e-05
9,710	DataLens: Making a Good First Impression	2009	SIGMOD	5.2343812e-05
12,509	Exploring Biomedical Databases with BioNav	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,756	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
31	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00050347119
35	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00048481081
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
365	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00020041735
466	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.00018014467
1,371	DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language	1998	VLDB	0.00010995344
2,810	BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction	1999	SIGMOD	8.0985732e-05

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