XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities
Summary: Tutorial survey of XML full-text search spanning database and information-retrieval perspectives: query languages, ranking, architectures, and evaluation. Highlights the distinctive challenge of jointly optimizing structural XML predicates with content-based search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sihem Amer-Yahia (AT&T)
- 2. Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Cornell University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ameryahia_vldb05,
title = {{XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities}},
author = {Amer-Yahia, Sihem and Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '05},
pages = {1368},
year = {2005}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,883 | DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.8942007e-05 |
| 3,323 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.4116032e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00036224963 |
| 167 | On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00027156235 |
| 412 | XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00018712693 |
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