SPARK: Keyword Search Engine for Relational Databases

This research project is funded by ARC Discovery Project DP0881779.

Academic Staff:

• Wei Wang

• Xuemin Lin

PhD Student:

• Yi Luo

• Yifei Lu

Undergraduate Student:

• Nino Svonja

1. Jianxin Li, Chengfei Liu, Rui Zhou, Wei Wang. Suggestion of Promising Result Types for XML Keyword Search. EDBT 2010.

2. Yi Chen, Wei Wang, Ziyang Liu, Xuemin Lin. Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-structured Data. SIGMOD 2009 (tutorial).

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   • Tutorial Slides: pptx / pdf / ppt.

3. Yi Luo, Wei Wang, Xuemin Lin. (SPARK2+). (In Progress)

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4. Yi Luo, Wei Wang, Xuemin Lin. SPARK: A Keyword Search Engine on Relational Databases. ICDE 2008. (demo)

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5. Yi Luo, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, Xiaofang Zhou. SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases. SIGMOD 2007.

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   • errata

   • Slides

   • TR version

6. Wei Wang. Keyword Search in Databases. Tutorial at APWeb 2006.

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