Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach
Summary: Proposes a probabilistic, query-generation model for keyword search over structured product specs to bridge vocab gap with user queries. Ranks entities by P(query|entity) using MLE/MAP from specs, reviews, and logs; shows significant gains and enables facet/review annotation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Huizhong Duan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 3. Jinxing Cheng (Walmart Labs)
- 4. Rohit Kumar (Walmart Labs)
BibTeX Citation
@article{duan_vldb13,
title = {{Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach}},
author = {Duan, Huizhong and Zhai, ChengXiang and Cheng, Jinxing and Kumar, Rohit},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '13},
volume = {6},
number = {14},
pages = {1786--1797},
doi = {10.14778/2556549.2556562},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2556549.2556562},
year = {2013}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,015 | Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation | 2020 | SIGMOD | 7.848843e-05 |
| 11,463 | Approximating Probabilistic Group Steiner Trees in Graphs | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,128 | ConfSeer: Leveraging Customer Support Knowledge Bases for Automated Misconfiguration Detection | 2015 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 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 |
| 212 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.000247733 |
| 272 | BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00022695855 |
| 748 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00014381224 |
| 1,689 | EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010003102 |
| 1,818 | A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases | 1990 | VLDB | 9.6827488e-05 |
| 6,883 | Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.7468523e-05 |
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