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Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data

Summary: Tutorial on keyword search across relational, XML, graph, streams, and workflows; covers result, ranking, top-k, snippets, clustering, and performance. Details keyword-search applications: db selection, query generation, analytics; outlines challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4194
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2009
Pagerank
7.0756309e-05
Overall Rank
3,456 | 75.99%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
6,057 Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases 2016 VLDB 5.2275892e-05
6,208 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.1511024e-05
7,253 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 4.7825469e-05
7,962 Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms 2010 VLDB 4.6089395e-05
8,030 Understanding Queries in a Search Database System 2010 PODS 4.5984458e-05
8,763 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
9,695 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.298211e-05
12,124 ColumbuScout: Towards Building Local Search Engines over Large Databases 2012 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 34 of 34 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.0003618341
257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030237174
278 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029322862
302 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028343691
337 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027002505
436 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.00023264416
547 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020372992
873 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.0001570125
989 Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014805498
1,072 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.00014256848
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013633055
1,202 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001333126
1,251 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.0001302453
1,453 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00011921738
1,840 Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search 2007 SIGMOD 0.00010350281
2,017 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 9.7875061e-05
2,127 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4806381e-05
2,190 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3356692e-05
2,801 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1074407e-05
3,116 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.5404022e-05
3,390 XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords 2007 VLDB 7.1482762e-05
4,144 DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML 2007 SIGMOD 6.4087307e-05
4,653 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.0131731e-05
5,549 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 5.4440282e-05
5,683 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3733855e-05
6,413 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.0649653e-05
6,733 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 4.9435837e-05
7,862 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 4.6292951e-05
8,230 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 4.5492215e-05
9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3167828e-05
9,590 An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources 2008 VLDB 4.3167828e-05
12,399 eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search 2008 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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