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: 4442
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.7468523e-05
Overall Rank: 6,883 | 52.78%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989342

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Authors

1. Jeffrey Pound (Microsoft; University of Waterloo)
2. Stelios Paparizos (Microsoft)
3. Panayiotis Tsaparas (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pound_sigmod11,
        title = {{Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach}},
        author = {Pound, Jeffrey and Paparizos, Stelios and Tsaparas, Panayiotis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989342},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989342},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,015	Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation	2020	SIGMOD	7.848843e-05
6,466	Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach	2013	VLDB	5.871262e-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
1,483	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00010633832
1,526	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010491673
1,839	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.6426575e-05
4,494	Structured Annotations of Web Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.6624281e-05
8,136	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.4810135e-05
8,329	Understanding Queries in a Search Database System	2010	PODS	5.4528142e-05

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