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: 3924
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.9277765e-05
Overall Rank: 2,220 | 84.78%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247518

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ziyang Liu (Arizona State University)
2. Yi Chen (Arizona State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod07,
        title = {{Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search}},
        author = {Liu, Ziyang and Chen, Yi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247518},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247518},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,878	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.5651166e-05
2,379	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	8.666326e-05
3,239	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.6078324e-05
3,908	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	7.0262215e-05
4,048	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.9372074e-05
4,249	Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input	2015	SIGMOD	6.8042877e-05
4,318	XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords	2007	VLDB	6.7640367e-05
4,408	Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search	2008	VLDB	6.7190081e-05
4,703	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.5549049e-05
5,221	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.310752e-05
7,180	Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents	2011	SIGMOD	5.6798251e-05
7,635	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	5.5769911e-05
7,931	MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data	2013	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
8,757	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	5.3766157e-05
9,791	A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases	2008	SIGMOD	5.2204332e-05
11,185	Temporal JSON Keyword Search	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,434	Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,477	Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,584	eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,715	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
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
318	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021380325
399	XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML	2003	VLDB	0.00019177959
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537
748	Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.00014381224
795	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00013939786
1,702	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.9697258e-05

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