NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases

Summary: NUITS integrates information retrieval with relational databases for efficient keyword search. Its distinctive interface supports both simple and condition-constrained keyword queries, coupled with user-friendly result presentation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9024541437498f58
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 5.6143673e-05
Overall Rank: 7,041 | 52.67%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Shan Wang (Renmin University of China)
2. Zhaohui Peng (Renmin University of China)
3. Jun Zhang (Renmin University of China)
4. Lu Qin (Renmin University of China)
5. Sheng Wang (Renmin University of China)
6. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
7. Bolin Ding (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb06,
        title = {{NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases}},
        author = {Wang, Shan and Peng, Zhaohui and Zhang, Jun and Qin, Lu and Wang, Sheng and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Ding, Bolin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {1143},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,565	Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010220855
3,312	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.4385614e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
217	Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00024465994
293	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021943678

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