The Continued Saga of DB-IR Integration

Summary: Tutorial survey of DB–IR integration for Web and semistructured XML, bridging relational querying with unstructured retrieval. Synthesizes proposals from both communities, application scenarios, challenges, and recurring pitfalls. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9425
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.3160527e-05
Overall Rank: 9,140 | 37.30%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50118-2

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile)
2. Mariano Consens (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{baezayates_vldb04,
        title = {{The Continued Saga of DB-IR Integration}},
        author = {Baeza-Yates, Ricardo and Consens, Mariano},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50118-2},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50118-2},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,877	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	8.0070039e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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