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Using Trees to Depict a Forest

Summary: Tree-based method to generate a compact set of representatives—one from each of k medoid clusters—allowing exploration of the full result space without ranking. User study shows cluster representatives outperform alternatives in quality and efficiency, adapting smoothly to query refinement. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9949
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
6.873144e-05
Overall Rank
3,654 | 74.59%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,000 DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage 2013 VLDB 9.8229527e-05
6,822 Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results 2012 SIGMOD 4.9152454e-05
8,206 Query Expansion Based on Clustered Results 2011 VLDB 4.5586037e-05
8,614 Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search 2014 VLDB 4.4849545e-05
10,565 Holistic query Approximation via RL Modeling 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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