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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
8963
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00023264416
Overall Rank
436 | 96.98%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030237174
302 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028343691
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
1,664 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.0001096091
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
2,229 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
3,046 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.6586679e-05
3,347 Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval 2006 SIGMOD 7.1902278e-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
4,046 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5021302e-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
4,510 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.1239848e-05
4,653 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.0131731e-05
5,549 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 5.4440282e-05
5,722 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.3534445e-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
7,509 MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data 2013 SIGMOD 4.7135369e-05
7,862 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 4.6292951e-05
8,551 Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data 2009 CIDR 4.4893996e-05
9,192 Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers 2014 SIGMOD 4.3728466e-05
9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3167828e-05
9,897 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 4.2559233e-05
10,975 Temporal JSON Keyword Search 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,946 Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence 2015 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,261 Using XMorph to Transform XML Data 2010 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,308 Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval 2009 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,326 ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents 2009 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,399 eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search 2008 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,527 An Algebraic Query Model for Effective and Efficient Retrieval of XML Fragments 2006 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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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 0.0005840064
1,873 Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data 2001 PODS 0.00010255165
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