Database Selection Using Actual Physical and Acquired Logical Collection Resources in a Massive Domain-specific Operational Environment

Summary: Evaluates automatic selection across Westlaw’s 15,000 databases and 6TB using CORI, optimized parameters, and language models. Uniquely compares physical collections with expert-designed logical collections organized by jurisdiction, practice area, and document type. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9025
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 5.6029996e-05
Overall Rank: 7,531 | 48.34%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50015-9

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Authors

1. Jack G. Conrad (Thomson Legal & Regulatory)
2. Xi S. Guo (Thomson Legal & Regulatory)
3. Peter Jackson (Thomson Legal & Regulatory)
4. Monem Meziou (Thomson Legal & Regulatory)

BibTeX Citation

@article{conrad_vldb02,
        title = {{Database Selection Using Actual Physical and Acquired Logical Collection Resources in a Massive Domain-specific Operational Environment}},
        author = {Conrad, Jack G. and Guo, Xi S. and Jackson, Peter and Meziou, Monem},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50015-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50015-9},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,768	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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