MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema
Summary: MeanKS enables meaningful keyword search in complex relational schemas by assigning keyword roles to capture user intent. It ranks join trees by schema-based relevance using relations and foreign-keys, not just answer size or content. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Mehdi Kargar
- 2. Aijun An
- 3. Nick Cercone
- 4. Parke Godfrey
- 5. Jaroslaw Szlichta
- 6. Xiaohui Yu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,141 | LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search | 2016 | VLDB | 9.4542625e-05 |
| 5,353 | An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5521332e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 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 |
| 1,510 | Summarizing Relational Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011606901 |
| 2,770 | Keyword Search in Graphs: Finding r-cliques | 2011 | VLDB | 8.1437191e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,592 | Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.0613645e-05 |
| 1,564 | Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00011350495 |
| 9,589 | A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.3209273e-05 |
| 5,672 | Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.3784128e-05 |
| 8,766 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 4.456315e-05 |
| 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 |
| 3,450 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0824082e-05 |
| 3,758 | Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 6.7824746e-05 |
| 877 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00015714014 |