Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet

Summary: Introduces query-specific database usefulness estimation, counting documents sufficiently similar to the query to select which Internet text collections to search. Also solves collection fusion by calibrating local similarity thresholds to the global ranking criterion. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8664
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00010191388
Overall Rank: 1,625 | 88.86%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Weiyi Meng (State University of New York at Binghamton)
2. King-Lup Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Clement Yu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Xiaodong Wang (State University of New York at Binghamton)
5. Yuhsi Chang (State University of New York at Binghamton)
6. Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{meng_vldb98,
        title = {{Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet}},
        author = {Meng, Weiyi and Liu, King-Lup and Yu, Clement and Wang, Xiaodong and Chang, Yuhsi and Rishe, Naphtali},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {14},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
635	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00015527042
1,483	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00010633832
2,214	Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources	2000	VLDB	8.9409217e-05
2,916	Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces	2004	SIGMOD	7.9664495e-05
4,524	Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases	2001	SIGMOD	6.6457031e-05
8,944	Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents	2001	SIGMOD	5.3480717e-05
12,641	AllInOneNews: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale News Metasearch Engine	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,768	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,016	Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	9.3030756e-05
3,022	Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources	1997	VLDB	7.8398496e-05

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