DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language

Summary: DataSpot enables nontechnical users to explore heterogeneous databases through free-form language and hypertext navigation. Its distinctive schema-less semi-structured “hyperbase” integrates source data, thesauri, and user associations for publishing and search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8720
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00010995344
Overall Rank: 1,371 | 90.60%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Shaul Dar (Data Technologies Ltd.)
2. Gadi Entin (Data Technologies Ltd.)
3. Shai Geva (Data Technologies Ltd.)
4. Eran Palmon (Data Technologies Ltd.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dar_vldb98,
        title = {{DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language}},
        author = {Dar, Shaul and Entin, Gadi and Geva, Shai and Palmon, Eran},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
301	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00022032878
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
1,839	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.6426575e-05
2,006	On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists	2004	SIGMOD	9.3190255e-05
2,204	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.959723e-05
4,378	Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams	2007	SIGMOD	6.7356271e-05

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
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
124	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030950263
301	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00022032878
573	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00016290377

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