Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search

Summary: Proposes XSeek, an XML keyword search engine that infers the return clause from keyword-driven matches. Separates predicates from return specs, recognizes entities/attributes, and uses structure and match-pattern analysis to generate return nodes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3863
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 0.00010350281
Overall Rank: 1,840 | 87.22%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ziyang Liu
2. Yi Chen

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,664	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	0.0001096091
2,127	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.4806381e-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
4,325	Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input	2015	SIGMOD	6.2785065e-05
4,410	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.2012075e-05
4,653	Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search	2008	VLDB	6.0131731e-05
4,748	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	5.9432853e-05
4,838	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	5.883146e-05
5,549	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	5.4440282e-05
7,313	Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents	2011	SIGMOD	4.7599924e-05
7,509	MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data	2013	SIGMOD	4.7135369e-05
7,616	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	4.6901111e-05
8,551	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	4.4893996e-05
9,589	A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases	2008	SIGMOD	4.3167828e-05
10,975	Temporal JSON Keyword Search	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,247	Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs	2010	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,290	Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views	2010	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,399	eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,529	XSACT: A Comparison Tool for Structured Search Results	2010	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00065993143
73	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.0005840064
206	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00034583517
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
1,270	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	0.00012911456

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