The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents

Summary: SphereSearch: unified ranked retrieval across heterogeneous XML and Web data. Supports vague structure and text criteria, plus concept- and link-aware ranking via IR statistics and ontologies; HTML/PDF pages convert to XML with semantic tagging, enabling rich queries on a richly tagged encyclopedia. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9334
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 9.2422485e-05
Overall Rank: 2,229 | 84.51%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
302	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00028343691
2,017	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	9.7875061e-05
2,127	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.4806381e-05
2,190	Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs	2008	VLDB	9.3356692e-05
3,347	Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval	2006	SIGMOD	7.1902278e-05
5,391	Indexing Dataspaces	2007	SIGMOD	5.5330974e-05
6,140	Extracting Logical Hierarchical Structure of HTML Documents Based on Headings	2015	VLDB	5.1880257e-05
8,450	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	4.5030622e-05
11,983	Which Concepts Are Worth Extracting?	2014	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0015436578
17	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00095799341
73	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.0005840064
99	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050043993
278	Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00029322862
436	XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML	2003	VLDB	0.00023264416
438	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00023220283
586	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001963091
1,094	The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice	2004	PODS	0.00014105105
1,131	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00013766101
1,805	Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees	2004	VLDB	0.00010479371
2,210	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	9.2875159e-05
2,707	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.265158e-05
6,398	RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites	2002	SIGMOD	5.0747167e-05

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