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)

Paper ID: 4193
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 6.1514e-05
Overall Rank: 5,609 | 61.52%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559883

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eric Chu (University of Wisconsin)
2. Akanksha Baid (University of Wisconsin)
3. Xiaoyong Chai (University of Wisconsin)
4. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Jeffrey Naughton (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chu_sigmod09,
        title = {{Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases}},
        author = {Chu, Eric and Baid, Akanksha and Chai, Xiaoyong and Doan, AnHai and Naughton, Jeffrey},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559883},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559883},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,478	Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases	2010	VLDB	8.5223053e-05
6,627	Schema-free SQL	2014	SIGMOD	5.8198662e-05
8,936	Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data	2010	VLDB	5.3483178e-05
12,385	Keyword Search on Form Results	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
212	Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.000247733
748	Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.00014381224
1,540	Crossing the Structure Chasm	2003	CIDR	0.00010430413
2,160	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.0607273e-05
2,204	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.959723e-05
2,405	DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community	2007	CIDR	8.6217909e-05
6,084	Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries	2006	VLDB	5.9830699e-05

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