Exploring Exploratory Querying
Summary: Argues that query formulation is an exploratory, iterative design-debug-maintain cycle, supported by an empirical analysis of Wikidata Query Service logs that exposes common iterative modification patterns. Contributes a curated query-session dataset, a taxonomy of patterns, and a research roadmap for languages, engines, interfaces, and user studies to enable system-level support for exploratory querying. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Marcelo Arenas (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 2. Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bolzano)
- 3. Janik Hammerer (University of Bayreuth)
- 4. Olaf Hartig (Linköping University)
- 5. Katja Hose (Vienna University of Technology)
- 6. Laura Koesten (University of Vienna)
- 7. George Konstantinidis (University of Southampton)
- 8. Leonid Libkin (RelationalAI; University of Edinburgh)
- 9. Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth)
- 10. Yuya Sasaki (University of Osaka)
- 11. Stefanie Scherzinger (University of Passau)
- 12. Katherine Thornton (Yale University Library)
- 13. Hsiang-Yun Wu (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)
BibTeX Citation
@article{arenas_vldb25,
title = {{Exploring Exploratory Querying}},
author = {Arenas, Marcelo and Franconi, Enrico and Hammerer, Janik and Hartig, Olaf and Hose, Katja and Koesten, Laura and Konstantinidis, George and Libkin, Leonid and Martens, Wim and Sasaki, Yuya and Scherzinger, Stefanie and Thornton, Katherine and Wu, Hsiang-Yun},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {13},
pages = {5731--5739},
doi = {10.14778/3773731.3773746},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3773731.3773746},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,835 | Sankofa: Online Query-adaptive Dynamic Graph Summaries | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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