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)

Paper ID: 10310
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 8.5223053e-05
Overall Rank: 2,478 | 83.01%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920932

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Authors

1. Venkatesh Ganti (Google)
2. Yeye He (University of Wisconsin)
3. Dong Xin (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ganti_vldb10,
        title = {{Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases}},
        author = {Ganti, Venkatesh and He, Yeye and Xin, Dong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {711--722},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920932},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920932},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
179	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00026838277
459	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00018101318
555	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00016568053

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
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
517	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00017169735
1,182	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.00011778765
1,560	Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries	2007	VLDB	0.00010361222
2,832	Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language	2010	SIGMOD	8.0783003e-05
2,976	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	7.9066299e-05
4,494	Structured Annotations of Web Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.6624281e-05
5,235	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	6.3047329e-05
5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.1514e-05
8,136	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.4810135e-05

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