| ICRA: Effective Semantics for Ranked XML Keyword Search |
With Meaningful Result Display |
Overview of Online Demo Features
Inspired by the simplicity of Google, our demo system provides a simple
interface for pure keyword queries, except that
users can specify if they are interested in publications (by default) or
authors in DBLP bibliography.
Search for publications
Our demo provides query flexibility in that users are free to issue keyword
queries which can be any combinations of
words in full or partial specification of author names, topics,
conference/journal names and/or year. Some types of queries
are illustrated as below.
Author name.
- e.g. we can input query {Jiawei Han} (or {Han Jiawei} by
Asian convention) for his publications.
The system automatically ranks Jiawei Han's
papers higher than papers co-authored by Jiawei and Han, due to keyword
co-occurrence rule.
Multiple author names. - We can input the (full or partial)
names of several authors to search for co-authored papers.
- e.g. Issue a query {Ling tok wang jiaheng Lu}
to find papers coauthored by Ling tok wang and Jiaheng Lu.
Topic. - Find the papers related to some research topic.
- e.g. we can query {XML query processing}.
Topic by an author. - e.g. we can query {Jim Gray transaction} for
his publications related to transaction.
Besides Jim Gray's papers containing
``transaction'', ICRA ranks his papers which do not contain ``transaction'' but
are
``transaction'' related, before his other
papers due to the references/citations with transaction papers captured.
Topic of a year.
- e.g. {keyword search 2006} to find papers
about "keyword search" published in 2006.
Conference and author.
- e.g. we can query {VLDB Raghu
Ramakrishnan} for his publications in VLDB.
Topic + co-authors + year + conference.
- e.g. We can query {Ling tok wang chen bo
DASFAA 2007 twig join} to find publications coauthored by ling tok wang
and chen bo on conference
DASFAA held in 2007, and the topic is about twig join.
Search for authors
Users can also search for authors with various types of queries to fulfill
their search needs. Some types of queries
are illustrated as below.
Author name. - We can search for authors and their co-authors with
a keyword query of an author name.
- e.g. we can search for author {Tova Milo} and her
co-authors. The author himself/herself is returned as the top-1 result,
followed by a list of his/her co-authors
Topic. - We can search for authors who have the most contributions
to a topic.
- e.g. We can input {XML} for authors with the most
contributions to ``XML'' research field.
Conference/Journal name. - We can also search for active authors
in a particular conference or journal.
- e.g. We can try {ICDE} to search for active authors in ICDE.
Author name and topic/conference/journal.
- Besides the author himself/herself, we can even search for
his/her co-authors in a particular topic or
conference/journal (e.g. we can search for
Surajit Chaudhuri and his co-authors in VLDB with
query {Surajit Chaudhuri VLDB}.