XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords
Summary: XSeek offers keyword-based XML search without XPath/XQuery or schema expertise. It infers search semantics by detecting entities/attributes, separating predicates from return specs, and generating meaningful results by synthesizing a return clause from keywords. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Ziyang Liu
- 2. Jeffrey Walker
- 3. Yi Chen
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,450 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0824082e-05 |
| 9,188 | Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers | 2014 | SIGMOD | 4.3770416e-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 |
| 12,262 | Keymantic: Semantic Keyword-based Searching in Data Integration Systems | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
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 |
| 434 | XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML | 2003 | VLDB | 0.0002328559 |
| 548 | Schema-Free XQuery | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00020391259 |
| 988 | Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00014819156 |
| 1,837 | Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00010356716 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,192 | The XXL Search Engine: Ranked Retrieval of XML Data using Indexes and Ontologies | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00013432765 |
| 7,609 | A System for Keyword Proximity Search on XML Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 4.6966255e-05 |
| 5,712 | Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates | 2006 | SIGMOD | 5.3584486e-05 |
| 73 | XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00058443993 |
| 4,656 | Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search | 2008 | VLDB | 6.0189209e-05 |
| 12,581 | XSeq: An Indexing Infrastructure for Tree Pattern Queries | 2004 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,318 | ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 8,050 | A TeXQuery-Based XML Full-Text Search Engine | 2004 | SIGMOD | 4.597063e-05 |
| 434 | XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML | 2003 | VLDB | 0.0002328559 |
| 1,837 | Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00010356716 |