Database Selection Using Actual Physical and Acquired Logical Collection Resources in a Massive Domain-specific Operational Environment
Summary: Optimizes database selection in Westlaw’s environment via WIN/CORI scoring for thousands of databases and tuned parameters. Compares language-model retrieval to a rearchitected physical/logical collection scheme (jurisdiction/practice/type) using expert judgments to boost efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jack G. Conrad
- 2. Xi S. Guo
- 3. Peter Jackson
- 4. Monem Meziou
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| 12,575 | When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage | 2004 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
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