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DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language

Summary: DataSpot enables exploration via free-form plain-language queries over a novel schema-less graph called a hyperbase. Publisher builds the hyperbase from heterogeneous databases and knowledge banks; the Search Server navigates it and returns HTML or object API results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8529
Venue
VLDB
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00015248642
Overall Rank
927 | 93.56%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
1,252 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00013033186
1,972 BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 9.8916725e-05
2,096 Automatic Categorization of Query Results 2004 SIGMOD 9.5498009e-05
2,161 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4002771e-05
4,592 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0613645e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
114 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00046339735
127 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00044642203
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
437 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00023240203
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