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SQAK: Doing More with Keywords

Summary: SQAK enables keyword-based aggregates via keyword queries over relational DBs, without SQL or schema knowledge. It uses schema constraints to map keywords to aggregates, with no engine changes, trading SQL expressivity for keyword-driven access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4040
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00013642866
Overall Rank
1,153 | 91.99%
DOI
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206 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.00034667032
535 ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores 2016 VLDB 0.00020727678
567 NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 0.00019966681
1,168 SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users 2012 VLDB 0.00013541143
2,025 Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases 2010 VLDB 9.7462452e-05
2,321 DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline 2020 SIGMOD 9.03609e-05
3,450 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0824082e-05
3,758 Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach 2011 SIGMOD 6.7824746e-05
5,281 State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data 2020 SIGMOD 5.5896272e-05
5,353 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 5.5521332e-05
6,210 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.1560547e-05
6,710 Schema-free SQL 2014 SIGMOD 4.9526147e-05
8,766 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.456315e-05
11,922 Proactive Annotation Management in Relational Databases 2015 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
276 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029336949
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027577867
434 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.0002328559
548 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020391259
877 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00015714014
1,908 Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets 2004 SIGMOD 0.00010126101
1,974 BHUNT: Automatic Discovery of Fuzzy Algebraic Constraints in Relational Data 2003 VLDB 9.8866171e-05
2,794 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1140341e-05
4,038 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5082212e-05
5,672 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3784128e-05
5,712 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.3584486e-05
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