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VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
EDBT
2010
ACM
132views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Turbo-charging hidden database samplers with overflowing queries and skew reduction
Recently, there has been growing interest in random sampling from online hidden databases. These databases reside behind form-like web interfaces which allow users to execute sear...
Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang 0004, Gautam Das
TOIS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Classification-aware hidden-web text database selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
A random walk approach to sampling hidden databases
A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden backend database to provide answers to user queries. ...
Arjun Dasgupta, Gautam Das, Heikki Mannila