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XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents

Summary: XRANK enables ranked keyword search over hierarchical XML by ranking at the element level rather than whole documents. It handles XML-specific proximity and nesting, delivering space and time gains while generalizing HTML search to mixed HTML/XML corpora. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3417
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00058443993
Overall Rank
73 | 99.50%
DOI
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74 Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00057857292
257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030223397
276 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029336949
301 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028370644
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027577867
336 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027020919
434 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.0002328559
548 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020391259
877 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00015714014
988 Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014819156
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013642866
1,252 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00013033186
1,667 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.00010960247
1,815 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 0.00010455025
1,837 Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search 2007 SIGMOD 0.00010356716
2,125 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4893973e-05
2,161 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4002771e-05
2,183 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3439219e-05
2,224 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 9.251962e-05
2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
2,704 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.2720556e-05
2,794 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1140341e-05
3,044 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.6640252e-05
3,110 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.5475982e-05
3,391 XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords 2007 VLDB 7.1551589e-05
3,450 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0824082e-05
3,947 Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph 2013 VLDB 6.5967528e-05
4,038 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5082212e-05
4,092 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4561959e-05
4,143 Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.4129418e-05
4,414 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2056993e-05
4,592 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0613645e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0303293e-05
4,656 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.0189209e-05
4,707 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9810753e-05
4,807 Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching 2013 VLDB 5.9092289e-05
5,032 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 5.748807e-05
5,541 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 5.4492586e-05
5,575 Structure and Content Scoring for XML 2005 VLDB 5.4264592e-05
5,712 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.3584486e-05
6,210 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.1560547e-05
6,729 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 4.9483065e-05
6,807 Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance 2013 SIGMOD 4.9217776e-05
6,812 AJAXSearch: Crawling, Indexing and Searching Web 2.0 Applications 2008 VLDB 4.918883e-05
7,148 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 4.8174598e-05
7,240 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 4.792172e-05
7,315 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 4.7645064e-05
7,507 Indexing and Selecting Hierarchical Business Logic 2015 VLDB 4.7180617e-05
7,615 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6946145e-05
7,861 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 4.6337387e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
393 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024524092
446 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022925415
927 DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language 1998 VLDB 0.00015248642
1,154 Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval 1994 VLDB 0.00013642184
1,517 Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval 1994 SIGMOD 0.00011578859
1,662 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010977682
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