Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine
Summary: XQ: Exemplar Queries—search engine inferring answer sets from a single exemplar element, not constraints. Demonstrates applicability across web and data sources; highlights core challenges and presents an implemented exemplar-based query approach. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Davide Mottin (University of Trento)
- 2. Matteo Lissandrini (University of Trento)
- 3. Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento)
- 4. Themis Palpanas (Paris Descartes University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{mottin_sigmod14,
title = {{Searching with XQ: the eXemplar Query Search Engine}},
author = {Mottin, Davide and Lissandrini, Matteo and Velegrakis, Yannis and Palpanas, Themis},
series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2588555.2594529},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2594529},
year = {2014}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,568 | Explaining and Querying Knowledge Graphs by Relatedness | 2017 | VLDB | 6.1708873e-05 |
| 6,200 | New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics | 2017 | VLDB | 5.9457282e-05 |
| 6,303 | X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer | 2018 | VLDB | 5.9213518e-05 |
| 8,358 | Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.4446041e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,394 | Neighborhood Based Fast Graph Search in Large Networks | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.0001093153 |
| 1,897 | Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need | 2014 | VLDB | 9.5243334e-05 |
| 3,651 | Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 7.2249652e-05 |
| 4,076 | A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem | 2013 | VLDB | 6.9221203e-05 |
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