Usability Engineering
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Effective keyword search in relational databases
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Yago: a core of semantic knowledge
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Making database systems usable
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Spark: top-k keyword query in relational databases
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Towards keyword-driven analytical processing
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Assisted querying using instant-response interfaces
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
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
SQAK: doing more with keywords
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Minimum-effort driven dynamic faceted search in structured databases
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition
SUITS: Faceted User Interface for Constructing Structured Queries from Keywords
DASFAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Towards natural question guided search
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Ontology-based interpretation of keywords for semantic search
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
YAGO-QA: Answering Questions by Structured Knowledge Queries
ICSC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing
A Probabilistic Scheme for Keyword-Based Incremental Query Construction
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Aligning freebase with the YAGO ontology
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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In recent years, a number of open databases have emerged on the Web, providing Web users with platforms to collaboratively create structured information. As these databases are intended to accommodate heterogeneous information and knowledge, they usually comprise a very large schema and billions of instances. Browsing and searching data on such a scale is not an easy task for a Web user. In this context, interactive query construction offers an intuitive interface for novice users to retrieve information from databases neither requiring any knowledge of structured query languages, nor any prior knowledge of the database schema. However, the existing mechanisms do not scale well on large scale datasets. This paper presents a set of techniques to boost the scalability of interactive query construction, from the perspective of both, user interaction cost and performance. We connect an abstract ontology layer to the database schema to shorten the process of user-computer interaction. We also introduce a search mechanism to enable efficient exploration of query interpretation spaces over large scale data. Extensive experiments show that our approach scales well on Freebase - an open database containing more than 7,000 relational tables in more than 100 domains.