Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces

Summary: Schema-free, real-time query construction via a single input box with instant guidance as users type. Novel approaches tackle schema/data complexity, result-size estimation, and query validity; demonstrated on an enterprise personnel search and a biological database. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3961
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 0.00014755845
Overall Rank: 994 | 93.09%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arnab Nandi
2. H. V. Jagadish

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
107	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048377684
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
1,907	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	0.00010136636
2,073	Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors	2009	SIGMOD	9.6142791e-05
2,714	WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications	2008	VLDB	8.2461058e-05
3,188	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4117439e-05
3,570	Location-Aware Type Ahead Search on Spatial Databases: Semantics and Efficiency	2011	SIGMOD	6.958427e-05
3,758	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	6.7824746e-05
4,834	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	5.8912496e-05
5,892	GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface	2013	VLDB	5.2864465e-05
7,615	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	4.6946145e-05
9,851	Adaptive Schema Databases	2017	CIDR	4.2721228e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
548	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00020391259

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