Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases
Summary: Offline generation and indexing of forms from the target database enable form-based ad hoc querying. Keyword search over the generated forms surfaces relevant templates; users assemble a structured query from a chosen form and submit it for execution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Eric Chu
- 2. Akanksha Baid
- 3. Xiaoyong Chai
- 4. AnHai Doan
- 5. Jeffrey Naughton
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,025 | Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 9.7462452e-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 |
| 12,190 | Keyword Search on Form Results | 2011 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
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 |
| 276 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029336949 |
| 877 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00015714014 |
| 1,198 | Crossing the Structure Chasm | 2003 | CIDR | 0.00013366708 |
| 2,066 | DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community | 2007 | CIDR | 9.6399561e-05 |
| 2,091 | Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface | 2008 | VLDB | 9.5608989e-05 |
| 2,096 | Automatic Categorization of Query Results | 2004 | SIGMOD | 9.5498009e-05 |
| 5,834 | Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries | 2006 | VLDB | 5.3103189e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,322 | Indexing for Keyword Search with Structured Constraints | 2023 | PODS | 4.3556432e-05 |
| 2,025 | Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 9.7462452e-05 |
| 2,319 | Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language | 2010 | SIGMOD | 9.0387108e-05 |
| 994 | Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00014755845 |
| 877 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00015714014 |
| 9,069 | Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 4.4032906e-05 |
| 276 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029336949 |
| 2,091 | Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface | 2008 | VLDB | 9.5608989e-05 |
| 8,766 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 4.456315e-05 |
| 12,190 | Keyword Search on Form Results | 2011 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |