Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search

Summary: Proposes XSeek, an XML keyword search engine that infers the return clause from keyword-driven matches. Separates predicates from return specs, recognizes entities/attributes, and uses structure and match-pattern analysis to generate return nodes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9884bc7eaf1637ce
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.7333724e-05
Overall Rank: 2,262 | 84.80%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247518

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

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

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod07,
        title = {{Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search}},
        author = {Liu, Ziyang and Chen, Yi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247518},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247518},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,906	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.3981082e-05
2,414	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	8.5081277e-05
3,312	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.4385614e-05
3,979	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	6.8802947e-05
4,140	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.7854783e-05
4,307	Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input	2015	SIGMOD	6.6747876e-05
4,407	XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords	2007	VLDB	6.6122753e-05
4,504	Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search	2008	VLDB	6.5732899e-05
4,806	Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers	2014	VLDB	6.4082256e-05
5,345	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.1697246e-05
7,323	Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents	2011	SIGMOD	5.5524474e-05
7,791	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	5.4518584e-05
8,099	MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data	2013	SIGMOD	5.3942942e-05
8,920	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	5.2559789e-05
9,974	A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases	2008	SIGMOD	5.1033245e-05
11,528	Temporal JSON Keyword Search	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,725	Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs	2010	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,768	Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,874	eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
14,027	XSACT: A Comparison Tool for Structured Search Results	2010	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
38	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00047394041
81	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00036346781
326	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020963333
410	XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML	2003	VLDB	0.00018778082
505	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00017161757
768	Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.00014105849
825	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00013643331
1,733	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.7551427e-05

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