Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach

Summary: Unsupervised facet discovery for structured web search by mining query logs and structured data to select ordered attributes and values. Disambiguation ranges from keyword matching to probabilistic models; scalable evaluation across 1k+ categories with a real-user study. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4381
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.9045718e-05
Overall Rank: 6,844 | 52.44%
DOI: -

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Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,360	Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation	2020	SIGMOD	7.1719486e-05
6,574	Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach	2013	VLDB	4.999847e-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
53	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00065993143
278	Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00029322862
1,258	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013001902
1,486	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00011691409
1,974	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.8822798e-05
4,097	Structured Annotations of Web Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.4504937e-05
7,322	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	4.7569445e-05
8,030	Understanding Queries in a Search Database System	2010	PODS	4.5984458e-05

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