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Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *
Summary: Calls for a unified DB–IR platform marrying structured DB queries with IR-style flexible, app-controlled scoring/ranking. Analyzes requirements (manageable core, easy API), highlights the tension between scoring flexibility and optimizability, and issues research challenges.
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Paper ID
h86d97ef2e789c199
Venue
CIDR
Year
2005
Pagerank
8.4962449e-05
Overall Rank
2,406 | 83.88%
DOI
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chaudhuri_cidr05,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '05},
title = {{Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Weikum, Gerhard},
year = {2005}
}
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