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XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML

Summary: XSEarch is a semantic XML search engine with a simple query language for naive users, returning fragments that satisfy queries. It ranks answers with IR-style scoring, uses advanced indexing, experiments show efficiency, scalability, high precision. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8962
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.0002328559
Overall Rank
434 | 96.99%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030223397
301 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028370644
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
1,667 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.00010960247
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
2,224 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
3,044 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.6640252e-05
3,341 Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval 2006 SIGMOD 7.1972915e-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
4,038 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5082212e-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
4,508 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.1298098e-05
4,656 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.0189209e-05
5,541 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 5.4492586e-05
5,712 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.3584486e-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
7,510 MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data 2013 SIGMOD 4.7180617e-05
7,861 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 4.6337387e-05
8,554 Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data 2009 CIDR 4.4937074e-05
9,188 Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers 2014 SIGMOD 4.3770416e-05
9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3209273e-05
9,898 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 4.2600049e-05
10,972 Temporal JSON Keyword Search 2024 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,938 Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence 2015 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,253 Using XMorph to Transform XML Data 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,300 Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval 2009 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,318 ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents 2009 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,390 eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,518 An Algebraic Query Model for Effective and Efficient Retrieval of XML Fragments 2006 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
1,870 Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data 2001 PODS 0.00010263799
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