An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources
Summary: EASE enables keyword search over heterogeneous data without requiring XPath/XQuery or SQL. Models data as graphs, builds compact graph indices, and uses an extended inverted index with a novel ranking for efficient, adaptive keyword retrieval. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Guoliang Li
- 2. Jianhua Feng
- 3. Jianyong Wang
- 4. Lizhu Zhou
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 3,456 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0756309e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.0005840064 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 302 | BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00028343691 |
| 989 | Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00014805498 |
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