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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
h472980e4a360798e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
0.00021943678
Overall Rank
293 | 98.04%
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}
}

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270 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022599109
355 On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks 2010 VLDB 0.00020124083
714 Effective Community Search for Large Attributed Graphs 2016 VLDB 0.00014569079
942 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012956137
1,133 Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance 2009 VLDB 0.00011898162
1,261 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.00011289708
1,445 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.0001063035
1,501 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010461358
1,565 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010220855
1,776 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 9.6674087e-05
1,906 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.3981082e-05
2,414 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.5081277e-05
2,731 Keyword Search in Graphs: Finding r-cliques 2011 VLDB 8.0838142e-05
2,851 Incremental Graph Computations: Doable and Undoable 2017 SIGMOD 7.9419904e-05
2,888 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 7.9072366e-05
3,088 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.6596008e-05
3,154 Managing Large Dynamic Graphs Efficiently 2012 SIGMOD 7.5870734e-05
3,312 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.4385614e-05
3,509 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 7.2474338e-05
3,543 Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste 2009 CIDR 7.2154261e-05
3,544 Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph 2013 VLDB 7.2136759e-05
4,140 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.7854783e-05
4,291 Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.6827339e-05
4,567 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.530229e-05
4,806 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.4082256e-05
4,842 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.3841337e-05
5,029 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 6.3071209e-05
5,531 Efficient and Progressive Group Steiner Tree Search 2016 SIGMOD 6.0935114e-05
5,671 BROAD: Diversified Keyword Search in Databases 2011 VLDB 6.0442568e-05
5,924 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.9458126e-05
7,041 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.6143673e-05
7,065 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 5.6092852e-05
7,150 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 5.5986232e-05
7,323 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.5524474e-05
7,339 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.5490881e-05
7,791 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 5.4518584e-05
7,824 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.445981e-05
8,154 Optimizing and Parallelizing Ranked Enumeration 2011 VLDB 5.3889102e-05
8,180 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.3820899e-05
8,494 Understanding Queries in a Search Database System 2010 PODS 5.3309392e-05
8,662 Top-K Nearest Keyword Search on Large Graphs 2013 VLDB 5.2928638e-05
9,098 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 5.2283159e-05
9,298 iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management 2006 VLDB 5.1989939e-05
9,974 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.1033245e-05
10,247 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0525742e-05
10,812 A Practical Sublinear Approximation for Group Steiner Tree 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,939 BiLink: Bidirectional Meta-paths for Link Discovery in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,217 GExp: Cost-aware Graph Exploration with Keywords 2018 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,578 Probabilistic Query Rewriting for Efficient and Effective Keyword Search on Graph Data 2013 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,752 Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing 2010 VLDB 4.9793485e-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 0.0010679641
38 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00047394041
81 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00036346781
217 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00024465994
290 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00021955068
482 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00017598607
505 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00017161757
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