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)

Paper ID: 9736
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.7640367e-05
Overall Rank: 4,318 | 70.38%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ziyang Liu (Arizona State University)
2. Jeffrey Walker (Arizona State University)
3. Yi Chen (Arizona State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb07,
        title = {{XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords}},
        author = {Liu, Ziyang and Walker, Jeffrey and Chen, Yi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        pages = {1330--1341},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,239	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.6078324e-05
9,352	Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers	2014	SIGMOD	5.2831061e-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
12,457	Keymantic: Semantic Keyword-based Searching in Data Integration Systems	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
399	XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML	2003	VLDB	0.00019177959
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537
795	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00013939786
2,220	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	8.9277765e-05

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