Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries

Summary: Introduces summary graphs that compactly represent keyword-query answer graphs by preserving keyword connectivity paths. Defines coverage-ratio information loss, characterizes optimization complexity, and develops exact/heuristic algorithms for minimum summaries. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h6ea3d7158d8876e2
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.9429979e-05
Overall Rank: 5,924 | 60.19%
DOI: 10.14778/2556549.2556561

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yinghui Wu (University of California Santa Barbara)
2. Shengqi Yang (University of California Santa Barbara)
3. Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM)
4. Arun Iyengar (IBM)
5. Xifeng Yan (University of California Santa Barbara)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wu_vldb13,
        title = {{Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries}},
        author = {Wu, Yinghui and Yang, Shengqi and Srivatsa, Mudhakar and Iyengar, Arun and Yan, Xifeng},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {14},
        pages = {1774--1785},
        doi = {10.14778/2556549.2556561},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2556549.2556561},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,682	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	7.101204e-05
4,809	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.4051922e-05
5,661	Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs	2017	VLDB	6.0449991e-05
7,990	Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions	2017	SIGMOD	5.4100383e-05
8,883	Online Detection of Anomalies in Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Interpretability	2024	SIGMOD	5.2554658e-05
10,238	Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs	2017	SIGMOD	5.0544949e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00036330407
270	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022588961
293	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021933539
498	Efficient Aggregation for Graph Summarization	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017310055
563	Graph Summarization with Bounded Error	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016319495
1,183	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.0001161406
1,318	Incremental Graph Pattern Matching	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011044781
1,907	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.3936687e-05
3,313	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.4350441e-05
4,368	Measure-driven Keyword-Query Expansion	2009	VLDB	6.6306025e-05
4,844	REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs	2012	VLDB	6.3811116e-05
5,351	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.166804e-05
8,395	Query Expansion Based on Clustered Results	2011	VLDB	5.3386292e-05

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