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DASFAA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
SUITS: Faceted User Interface for Constructing Structured Queries from Keywords
Keyword search and database query are two ways for retrieving data in real world settings. In this demonstration, we show SUITS, a novel search interface over relational databases ...
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, Gideon Zenz, Wolfgang N...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Query biased snippet generation in XML search
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
Yu Huang, Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Combining keyword search and forms for ad hoc querying of databases
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 keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Building search applications with Marklogic Server
Keyword search is recognized as an important technique to unlocking the information found in both structured and semistructured information. With XML as the data model and XQuery ...
Ron Avnur
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Learning how: the search for craft knowledge on the internet
Communicating the subtleties of a craft technique, like putting a zipper into a garment or throwing a clay pot, can be challenging even when working side by side. Yet HowTo conten...
Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. M...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Keyword Search on Spatial Databases
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
Ian De Felipe, Vagelis Hristidis, Naphtali Rishe