National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41362015);Youth Science Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province (No.20122BAB211035);Science and Technique Research Program of Education Department of Jiangxi Province (No.GJJ14431, No.GJJ13415, No.GJJ13411);Key Project of EducationDepartment of Jiangxi Province (No.赣教技字[12770]号)
The technique of keyword search over graph data can be applied to structured data
semi-structured data
and unstructured data.It enables ordinary users to retrieve related information from data without the needs of being familiar with any query languages and underlying data model.Keyword search over graph data is one of research hotspots of the database and information retrieval.The paper proposed a detail review of the current work of keyword search over graph data.Firstly
basic concepts were introduced.Then
some key techniques in the query processing were summarized and analyzed
including search methods
ranking strategies
query intent
and query evaluation.Finally
the existing problems in the current research work and future research issues were also discussed.