Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms

Summary: Seaform enables Search-As-You-Type in form-based interfaces, computing answers incrementally as each character is typed to deliver instant feedback and reduce query effort. Efficient techniques achieve interactive speed and support two real-data deployments for enhanced faceted search and on-the-fly data exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10189
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.4574671e-05
Overall Rank: 8,277 | 43.22%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920990

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hao Wu (Tsinghua University)
2. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
3. Chen Li (University of California Irvine)
4. Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wu_vldb10,
        title = {{Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms}},
        author = {Wu, Hao and Li, Guoliang and Li, Chen and Zhou, Lizhu},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1565--1568},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920990},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920990},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,862	DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible	2011	CIDR	5.7514733e-05
12,313	ColumbuScout: Towards Building Local Search Engines over Large Databases	2012	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,160	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.0607273e-05
3,064	The CompleteSearch Engine: Interactive, Efficient, and Towards IR & DB Integration	2007	CIDR	7.8008109e-05
3,239	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.6078324e-05
4,048	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.9372074e-05

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