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XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents

Summary: XRANK enables ranked keyword search over hierarchical XML by ranking at the element level rather than whole documents. It handles XML-specific proximity and nesting, delivering space and time gains while generalizing HTML search to mixed HTML/XML corpora. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h26620c3d4d35ac0a
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00036330407
Overall Rank
81 | 99.46%
DOI
10.1145/872757.872762

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{guo_sigmod03,
        title = {{XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents}},
        author = {Guo, Lin and Shao, Feng and Botev, Chavdar and Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872762},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872762},
        year = {2003}
}

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217 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00024454844
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293 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00021933539
319 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021155013
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2,415 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.5041001e-05
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5,324 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 6.180179e-05
5,351 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 6.166804e-05
5,637 Structure and Content Scoring for XML 2005 VLDB 6.0546718e-05
5,924 Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries 2013 VLDB 5.9429979e-05
6,276 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.8251172e-05
6,902 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 5.6493762e-05
7,088 Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance 2013 SIGMOD 5.5997256e-05
7,326 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.5500332e-05
7,339 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 5.5467079e-05
7,342 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.5464639e-05
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38 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00047373961
303 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00021632881
374 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00019698564
582 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00015975125
1,401 DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language 1998 VLDB 0.00010769602
1,448 Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval 1994 VLDB 0.00010622671
2,038 Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval 1994 SIGMOD 9.1484786e-05
2,242 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 8.7667135e-05
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