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Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases

Summary: Structure-aware keyword-relationship summarization of relational databases enables cross-source keyword search. Ranking methods based on these summaries select the most relevant databases for a keyword query; PlanetLab experiments on real data validate effectiveness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hef4401c5270a3789
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
5.9729417e-05
Overall Rank
5,845 | 60.71%
DOI
10.1145/1247480.1247498

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yu_sigmod07,
        title = {{Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases}},
        author = {Yu, Bei and Li, Guoliang and Sollins, Karen and Tung, Anthony K. H.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247498},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247498},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,182 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.0001161771
1,906 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.3981082e-05
3,312 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.4385614e-05
8,348 ConnectionLens: Finding Connections Across Heterogeneous Data Sources 2018 VLDB 5.3501859e-05
9,592 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 5.1564222e-05
9,974 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.1033245e-05
12,657 Schema-As-You-Go: On Probabilistic Tagging and Querying of Wide Tables 2011 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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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
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031630695
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
768 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00014105849
997 To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012633809
1,445 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.0001063035
1,517 Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection 2002 VLDB 0.00010400233
2,327 BATON: A Balanced Tree Structure for Peer-to-Peer Networks 2005 VLDB 8.6301365e-05
9,108 Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents 2001 SIGMOD 5.228221e-05
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