TY  - CONF
ID  - www200951
UR  - http://www2009.eprints.org/51/
A1  - Agrawal, Sanjay
A1  - Chakrabarti, Kaushik
A1  - Chaudhuri, Surajit
A1  - Ganti, Venkatesh
A1  - Christian König, Arnd
A1  - Xin, Dong
Y1  - 2009/04//
N2  - Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing their descriptions and speci?cations. The relevant structured data items are then returned to the user along with web search results. However, each structured database is searched in isolation. Hence, the search often produces empty or incomplete results as the database may not contain the required information to answer the query. In this paper, we propose a novel integrated search architecture. We establish and exploit the relationships between web search results and the items in structured databases to identify the relevant structured data items for a much wider range of queries. Our architecture leverages existing search engine components to implement this functionality at very low overhead. We demonstrate the quality and efficiency of our techniques through an extensive experimental study. 
TI  - Exploiting Web Search Engines to Search Structured Databases
SP  - 501
M2  - Madrid, Spain
AV  - public
EP  - 501
T2  - 18th International World Wide Web Conference
ER  -