DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Advocates a unified DB&IR view and explains why integration remains hard across structured data and text. Root cause: diverging user models—programmers vs cognitive IR users—drives predicate matching in DB and ranking in IR; interactive bridging needed. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3836
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 9.7951657e-05
Overall Rank: 2,012 | 86.01%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Gerhard Weikum

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2,771	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.1421432e-05
3,450	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.0824082e-05
12,286	The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data	2009	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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54	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00066047203
150	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00041055843
301	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00028370644
336	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00027020919
759	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00017064615
1,073	Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search	2006	PODS	0.00014264992
1,147	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00013677658
1,734	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	0.00010723542
2,224	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	9.251962e-05
2,333	A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration	2005	CIDR	9.0169986e-05
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3,044	An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search	2005	VLDB	7.6640252e-05
4,707	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	5.9810753e-05
6,073	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.2253416e-05
6,828	One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing	2007	CIDR	4.9137746e-05
7,861	XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities	2005	VLDB	4.6337387e-05
8,455	Community Systems: The World Online	2007	CIDR	4.5073797e-05
8,456	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	4.5073797e-05
8,457	The Continued Saga of DB-IR Integration	2004	VLDB	4.5073797e-05

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