Effective Fuzzy Keyword Search over Uncertain Data

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoming Song;Guoliang Li;Jianhua Feng;Lizhu Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays a huge amount of data were automatically generated or extracted from other data sources. The uncertainty and imprecision are intrinsic in those data. In this paper, we study the problem of effective keyword search over uncertain data. We allow approximate matching between input keywords and the strings in the underlying data, even in the presence of minor errors of input keywords. We formalize the problem of fuzzy keyword search over uncertain data. We propose efficient algorithms, effective ranking functions, and early-termination techniques to facilitate fuzzy keyword search over uncertain data. We propose a lattice based fuzzy keyword search method to efficiently identify top-k answers. Extensive experiments on a real dataset show that our proposed algorithm achieves both high result quality and search efficiency.