Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases
Summary: Translates keyword queries into structured queries by mining keyword-attribute/value associations from results of the original search interface. This framework boosts recall and precision for entity databases, reducing misses and misinterpretations without changing the user workflow. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Venkatesh Ganti (Google)
- 2. Yeye He (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Dong Xin (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ganti_vldb10,
title = {{Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases}},
author = {Ganti, Venkatesh and He, Yeye and Xin, Dong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '10},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {711--722},
doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920932},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920932},
year = {2010}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0002654471 |
| 439 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00018251249 |
| 536 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00016771934 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00047394041 |
| 518 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00016944862 |
| 1,182 | SQAK: Doing More with Keywords | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0001161771 |
| 1,581 | Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010180038 |
| 2,880 | Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.9144548e-05 |
| 3,031 | Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web | 2007 | CIDR | 7.7351469e-05 |
| 4,567 | Structured Annotations of Web Queries | 2010 | SIGMOD | 6.530229e-05 |
| 5,319 | Object-level Vertical Search | 2007 | CIDR | 6.182759e-05 |
| 5,724 | Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases | 2009 | SIGMOD | 6.0174945e-05 |
| 8,287 | Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.3617357e-05 |
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