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ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases

Summary: ObjectRank uses authority-based ranking for keyword search on labeled graphs, routing from keyword-bearing objects through links to rank results. It precomputes per-keyword ObjectRanks and combines them at runtime with adjustable weights. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9166
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00027574254
Overall Rank
320 | 97.78%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
302 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028343691
337 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027002505
570 From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph" 2014 VLDB 0.00019895021
765 PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks 2011 VLDB 0.0001695147
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013633055
1,258 Ordering the Attributes of Query Results 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013001902
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011340407
1,633 Relational link-based ranking 2004 VLDB 0.00011062304
2,076 Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank 2013 SIGMOD 9.6057342e-05
2,182 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.3596252e-05
2,189 BEAR: Block Elimination Approach for Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs 2015 SIGMOD 9.3358152e-05
2,190 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3356692e-05
2,604 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4628537e-05
2,745 Incremental and Accuracy-Aware Personalized PageRank through Scheduled Approximation 2013 VLDB 8.1831695e-05
3,116 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.5404022e-05
3,261 Multidimensional Content eXploration 2008 VLDB 7.3088095e-05
3,853 Distributed Algorithms on Exact Personalized PageRank 2017 SIGMOD 6.6987268e-05
4,046 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5021302e-05
4,064 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.4763384e-05
4,410 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2012075e-05
4,446 Retrieving Top-k Prestige-Based Relevant Spatial Web Objects 2010 VLDB 6.174662e-05
4,593 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0559961e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0246358e-05
4,705 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9776799e-05
5,031 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 5.7433161e-05
5,514 Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking 2005 SIGMOD 5.4689625e-05
5,683 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3733855e-05
5,851 Mining Significant Semantic Locations From GPS Data 2010 VLDB 5.3005017e-05
5,938 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.2605665e-05
5,945 Reverse Top-k Search using Random Walk with Restart 2014 VLDB 5.2583364e-05
5,962 Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 5.2499162e-05
6,054 Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 5.2310615e-05
6,078 Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance 2007 CIDR 5.2203245e-05
6,793 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 4.9201319e-05
7,179 A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs 2022 SIGMOD 4.803776e-05
7,236 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 4.7877732e-05
7,253 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 4.7825469e-05
7,516 ObjectRank: A System for Authority-based Search on Databases 2006 SIGMOD 4.7135369e-05
7,616 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6901111e-05
7,957 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.6089395e-05
8,746 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
9,187 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 4.375789e-05
9,333 Estimating Single-Node PageRank in O~(min{d_t, sqrt(m)}) Time 2023 VLDB 4.351469e-05
11,900 Looking at Everything in Context 2015 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,274 Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing 2010 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,325 Search Your Memory ! - An Associative Memory Based Desktop Search System 2009 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,413 C-DEM: A Multi-Modal Query System for Drosophila Embryo Databases 2008 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
13,588 DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications 2008 VLDB -
13,615 Information Discovery in Loosely Integrated Data 2007 SIGMOD -
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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
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
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