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Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity

Summary: WHIRL: a data integration logic that reasons about local-name similarity instead of normalization to a global domain, enabling flexible mappings. Leverages vector-space similarity on natural-language names and deploys a scalable integration system that merges many sites across two domains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hc5de63ecd3eb0f9c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
6.0035937e-05
Overall Rank
5,762 | 61.27%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276380

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cohen_sigmod98,
        title = {{Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity}},
        author = {Cohen, William W.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276380},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276380},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
474 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.00017672562
1,886 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.4339749e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031630695
162 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00027536748
356 Regular Path Queries with Constraints 1997 PODS 0.00020103855
532 Answering Recursive Queries Using Views 1997 PODS 0.0001682881
2,147 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 8.9576491e-05
4,382 The Distributed Information Search Component (DISCO) and the World Wide Web 1997 SIGMOD 6.6261787e-05
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