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Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases

Summary: Introduces bidirectional keyword search over graph databases, combining backward expansion from keyword matches with forward exploration from candidate roots. A spreading-activation frontier prioritization mitigates high-match and high-degree bottlenecks, substantially outperforming backward-only search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9522
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
0.00021963347
Overall Rank
302 | 97.93%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{kacholia_vldb05,
        title = {{Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases}},
        author = {Kacholia, Varun and Pandit, Shashank and Chakrabarti, Soumen and Desai, Rushi and Karambelkar, Hrishikesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        pages = {505},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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272 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022695855
352 On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks 2010 VLDB 0.00020375193
706 Effective Community Search for Large Attributed Graphs 2016 VLDB 0.00014789612
930 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001312728
1,115 Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance 2009 VLDB 0.00012117375
1,239 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.000115381
1,429 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.00010811133
1,542 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010421046
1,555 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010370683
1,751 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 9.838446e-05
1,878 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.5651166e-05
2,379 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.666326e-05
2,691 Keyword Search in Graphs: Finding r-cliques 2011 VLDB 8.2499521e-05
2,798 Incremental Graph Computations: Doable and Undoable 2017 SIGMOD 8.1129891e-05
2,877 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 8.0070039e-05
3,032 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.8323614e-05
3,109 Managing Large Dynamic Graphs Efficiently 2012 SIGMOD 7.7482727e-05
3,239 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.6078324e-05
3,450 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 7.4038805e-05
3,499 Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph 2013 VLDB 7.362886e-05
3,502 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.3592947e-05
4,048 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.9372074e-05
4,221 Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.8233111e-05
4,494 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.6624281e-05
4,703 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.5549049e-05
4,736 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.5300642e-05
4,910 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 6.4484207e-05
5,553 BROAD: Diversified Keyword Search in Databases 2011 VLDB 6.1777883e-05
5,849 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 6.0666529e-05
6,469 Efficient and Progressive Group Steiner Tree Search 2016 SIGMOD 5.8710857e-05
6,909 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.7414855e-05
6,931 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 5.736358e-05
7,006 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 5.726836e-05
7,180 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.6798251e-05
7,202 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.6755422e-05
7,635 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 5.5769911e-05
7,670 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.5709469e-05
8,013 Optimizing and Parallelizing Ranked Enumeration 2011 VLDB 5.5073426e-05
8,329 Understanding Queries in a Search Database System 2010 PODS 5.4528142e-05
8,493 Top-K Nearest Keyword Search on Large Graphs 2013 VLDB 5.4142883e-05
8,920 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.3483178e-05
8,936 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 5.3483178e-05
9,139 iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management 2006 VLDB 5.3160527e-05
9,791 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.2204332e-05
10,052 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.1685424e-05
11,918 GExp: Cost-aware Graph Exploration with Keywords 2018 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,287 Probabilistic Query Rewriting for Efficient and Effective Keyword Search on Graph Data 2013 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,461 Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing 2010 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,580 Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies 2008 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010828372
37 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00048017193
77 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00037048607
212 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.000247733
285 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00022365284
470 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00017965707
496 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.0001750537
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