NFQL: the natural forms query language
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Keyword Searching and Browsing in Databases using BANKS
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
Automatic categorization of query results
SIGMOD '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Automating the Design and Construction of Query Forms
ICDE '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
Effective keyword search in relational databases
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Efficient detection of empty-result queries
VLDB '06 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases
Query-by-example: the invocation and definition of tables and forms
VLDB '75 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Discover: keyword search in relational databases
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Efficient IR-style keyword search over relational databases
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
Expressive query specification through form customization
EDBT '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Extending database technology: Advances in database technology
Automated creation of a forms-based database query interface
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Evaluating evidences for keyword query disambiguation in entity centric database search
DEXA'10 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Database and expert systems applications: Part II
Toward scalable keyword search over relational data
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Keyword++: a framework to improve keyword search over entity databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
A novel keyword search paradigm in relational databases: Object summaries
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Providing built-in keyword search capabilities in RDBMS
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Detecting and exploiting stability in evolving heterogeneous information spaces
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Keyword search on form results
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
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A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyword search have been proposed; while both have benefits, both also have limitations. In this paper, we investigate combining the two with the hopes of creating an approach that provides the best of both. Specifically, we propose to take as input a target database and then generate and index a set of query forms offline. At query time, a user with a question to be answered issues standard keyword search queries; but instead of returning tuples, the system returns forms relevant to the question. The user may then build a structured query with one of these forms and submit it back to the system for evaluation. In this paper, we address challenges that arise in form generation, keyword search over forms, and ranking and displaying these forms. We explore techniques to tackle these challenges, and present experimental results suggesting that the approach of combining keyword search and form-based interfaces is promising.