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[2017 CIKM] Keyword Search on RDF Graphs — A Query Graph Assembly Approach
Shuo Han's paper (Keyword Search on RDF Graphs — A Query Graph Assembly Approach) is accepted by CIKM 2017.
Keyword search provides ordinary users an easy-to-use interface for querying RDF data. In this paper, we study how to assemble a query graph that is to represent user’s query intention accurately and efficiently. Based on the input keywords, we first obtain the elementary query graph building blocks, such as entity/class vertices and predicate edges. Then, we formally define the query graph assembly (QGA) problem. Although we prove theoretically that QGA is a NP-complete problem,we design some heuristic lower bounds and propose a bipartite graph matching-based best-first search algorithm. The algorithm’s time complexity does not depend on the RDF graph size, which guarantees the good scalability of our system in large RDF graphs.
Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology