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BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs

Summary: BLINKS: bi-level indexing for top-k keyword searches on graphs. Block-partitioned graphs with block-level summaries enable pruning and fast intra-block search; provable performance bounds and orders-of-magnitude speedups over prior approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hfdf3e93f7efb7a45
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00022599109
Overall Rank
270 | 98.19%
DOI
10.1145/1247480.1247516

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{he_sigmod07,
        title = {{BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs}},
        author = {He, Hao and Wang, Haixun and Yang, Jun and Yu, Philip S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247516},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247516},
        year = {2007}
}

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38 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00047394041
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217 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00024465994
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