Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases
Summary: Translates keyword queries into structured queries by mining keyword-attribute/value associations from results of the original search interface. This framework boosts recall and precision for entity databases, reducing misses and misinterpretations without changing the user workflow. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Venkatesh Ganti
- 2. Yeye He
- 3. Dong Xin
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 206 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00034667032 |
| 535 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00020727678 |
| 567 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00019966681 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00066047203 |
| 492 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00021974699 |
| 1,153 | SQAK: Doing More with Keywords | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00013642866 |
| 1,533 | Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00011471971 |
| 1,734 | Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00010723542 |
| 2,319 | Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language | 2010 | SIGMOD | 9.0387108e-05 |
| 4,092 | Structured Annotations of Web Queries | 2010 | SIGMOD | 6.4561959e-05 |
| 4,707 | Object-level Vertical Search | 2007 | CIDR | 5.9810753e-05 |
| 5,419 | Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.5176475e-05 |
| 7,326 | Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.7612871e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,069 | Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 4.4032906e-05 |
| 9,322 | Indexing for Keyword Search with Structured Constraints | 2023 | PODS | 4.3556432e-05 |
| 12,190 | Keyword Search on Form Results | 2011 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 877 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00015714014 |
| 5,419 | Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.5176475e-05 |
| 3,758 | Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 6.7824746e-05 |
| 3,450 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0824082e-05 |
| 6,576 | Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach | 2013 | VLDB | 5.0046315e-05 |
| 8,766 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 4.456315e-05 |
| 276 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029336949 |