GTE SuperPages: Using IR Techniques for Searching Complex Objects

Summary: GTE SuperPages combines an object database with an IR engine to flexibly search complex business listings. Its unified index spans all components of 11M objects across 17,000+ categories, rather than indexing isolated fields. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8648
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
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Overall Rank: 14,208 | 2.52%
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Authors

1. Steven Whitehead (GTE Laboratories Incorporated)
2. Himanshu Sinha (GTE Laboratories Incorporated)
3. Michael Murphy (GTE Laboratories Incorporated)

BibTeX Citation

@article{whitehead_vldb97,
        title = {{GTE SuperPages: Using IR Techniques for Searching Complex Objects}},
        author = {Whitehead, Steven and Sinha, Himanshu and Murphy, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {553},
        year = {1997}
}

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