Distributed Hypertext Resource Discovery Through Examples

Summary: Presents a relationally managed hypertext discovery system answering queries over content, metadata, and links. A database-integrated crawler uses relevance classifiers and link-neighborhood distillers instead of global keyword crawling, improving I/O efficiency and enabling SQL control. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8773
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 7.4557297e-05
Overall Rank: 3,383 | 76.80%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
2. Martin H. van den Berg (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
3. Byron E. Dom (IBM Almaden)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chakrabarti_vldb99,
        title = {{Distributed Hypertext Resource Discovery Through Examples}},
        author = {Chakrabarti, Soumen and van den Berg, Martin H. and Dom, Byron E.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {375},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,403	Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs	2000	VLDB	0.000108876
8,166	Accurate and Efficient Crawling for Relevant Websites	2004	VLDB	5.4749372e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
301	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00022032878
2,624	Enhanced hypertext categorization using hyperlinks	1998	SIGMOD	8.3307304e-05
3,820	Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System	1995	SIGMOD	7.0951455e-05

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