BROAD: Diversified Keyword Search in Databases

Summary: BROAD: diversified, hierarchical keyword-search browsing for databases. It partitions answer trees into k diverse representatives, groups by similarity, recursively refines each group, and yields summarized results guiding rapid discovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10199
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.9794343e-05
Overall Rank: 4,710 | 67.24%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,725	Max-Sum Diversification, Monotone Submodular Functions and Dynamic Updates	2012	PODS	0.00010748322

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
336	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00027020919

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