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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,142 | LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search | 2016 | VLDB | 9.4461701e-05 |
| 5,363 | An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5467941e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00065993143 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 1,506 | Summarizing Relational Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 0.0001159691 |
| 2,774 | Keyword Search in Graphs: Finding r-cliques | 2011 | VLDB | 8.140768e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,593 | Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.0559961e-05 |
| 1,564 | Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00011340407 |
| 5,683 | Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.3733855e-05 |
| 9,589 | A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.3167828e-05 |
| 8,763 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 4.4520434e-05 |
| 9,065 | Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 4.3992275e-05 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 3,456 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0756309e-05 |
| 3,766 | Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 6.7753484e-05 |
| 873 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.0001570125 |