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: 9153
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00019177959
Overall Rank: 399 | 97.27%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sara Cohen (Hebrew University)
2. Jonathan Mamou (Hebrew University)
3. Yaron Kanza (Hebrew University)
4. Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cohen_vldb03,
        title = {{XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML}},
        author = {Cohen, Sara and Mamou, Jonathan and Kanza, Yaron and Sagiv, Yehoshua},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 39 of 39 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
272	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022695855
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
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
1,182	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.00011778765
1,878	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.5651166e-05
2,220	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	8.9277765e-05
2,359	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.698016e-05
2,379	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	8.666326e-05
2,609	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.3476234e-05
2,616	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.339188e-05
3,209	An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search	2005	VLDB	7.6357297e-05
3,239	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.6078324e-05
4,048	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.9372074e-05
4,131	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.8834743e-05
4,221	Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	6.8233111e-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
4,433	Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval	2006	SIGMOD	6.7082016e-05
5,006	iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces	2007	VLDB	6.4034229e-05
5,221	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.310752e-05
6,150	Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates	2006	SIGMOD	5.9579906e-05
7,180	Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents	2011	SIGMOD	5.6798251e-05
7,202	Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs	2007	VLDB	5.6755422e-05
7,209	EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search	2010	VLDB	5.6723214e-05
7,931	MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data	2013	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
8,364	XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities	2005	VLDB	5.4428499e-05
8,757	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	5.3766157e-05
9,352	Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers	2014	SIGMOD	5.2831061e-05
9,791	A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases	2008	SIGMOD	5.2204332e-05
10,052	Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.1685424e-05
11,185	Temporal JSON Keyword Search	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,136	Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,448	Using XMorph to Transform XML Data	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,494	Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,512	ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,584	eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,711	An Algebraic Query Model for Effective and Efficient Retrieval of XML Fragments	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
2,138	Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data	2001	PODS	9.109132e-05

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