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Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *
Summary: Calls for a unified DB–IR platform marrying structured DB queries with IR-style flexible, app-controlled scoring/ranking. Analyzes requirements (manageable core, easy API), highlights the tension between scoring flexibility and optimizability, and issues research challenges.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Paper ID
40
Venue
CIDR
Year
2005
Pagerank
8.698016e-05
Overall Rank
2,359 | 83.82%
DOI
-
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chaudhuri_cidr05,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '05},
title = {{Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Weikum, Gerhard},
year = {2005}
}
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