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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
3418
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.0005840064
Overall Rank
73 | 99.50%
DOI
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74 Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00057797415
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278 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029322862
302 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028343691
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027574254
337 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027002505
436 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.00023264416
547 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020372992
873 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.0001570125
989 Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014805498
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013633055
1,251 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.0001302453
1,664 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.0001096091
1,814 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 0.00010450277
1,840 Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search 2007 SIGMOD 0.00010350281
2,127 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4806381e-05
2,166 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.3918483e-05
2,190 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3356692e-05
2,229 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 9.2422485e-05
2,604 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4628537e-05
2,707 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.265158e-05
2,801 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1074407e-05
3,046 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.6586679e-05
3,116 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.5404022e-05
3,390 XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords 2007 VLDB 7.1482762e-05
3,456 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0756309e-05
3,948 Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph 2013 VLDB 6.5968941e-05
4,046 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5021302e-05
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
4,143 Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.4096394e-05
4,410 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2012075e-05
4,593 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0559961e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0246358e-05
4,653 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.0131731e-05
4,705 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9776799e-05
4,748 Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching 2013 VLDB 5.9432853e-05
5,031 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 5.7433161e-05
5,549 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 5.4440282e-05
5,581 Structure and Content Scoring for XML 2005 VLDB 5.4213589e-05
5,722 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.3534445e-05
6,208 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.1511024e-05
6,733 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 4.9435837e-05
6,805 Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance 2013 SIGMOD 4.9170518e-05
6,810 AJAXSearch: Crawling, Indexing and Searching Web 2.0 Applications 2008 VLDB 4.9141649e-05
7,148 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 4.8129765e-05
7,236 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 4.7877732e-05
7,313 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 4.7599924e-05
7,506 Indexing and Selecting Hierarchical Business Logic 2015 VLDB 4.7135369e-05
7,616 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6901111e-05
7,862 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 4.6292951e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.0003618341
393 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024506032
447 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022927245
928 DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language 1998 VLDB 0.00015236575
1,152 Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval 1994 VLDB 0.00013633341
1,514 Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval 1994 SIGMOD 0.00011571661
1,658 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010970782
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