Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases

Summary: Tutorial survey of keyword search over structured databases: translating terms into schema- and content-aware candidate SQL queries, then ranking results for exploration. Highlights IR-to-database challenges spanning semantics, joins, ranking models, and index-aware processing. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10173
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.300554e-05
Overall Rank: 9,239 | 36.62%
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687622

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Authors

1. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
2. Gautam Das (University of Texas)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chaudhuri_vldb09,
        title = {{Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases}},
        author = {Chaudhuri, Surajit and Das, Gautam},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687622},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687622},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,465	On Obtaining Stable Rankings	2019	VLDB	6.2075408e-05

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