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XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML

Summary: XSEarch is a semantic XML search engine with a simple query language for naive users, returning fragments that satisfy queries. It ranks answers with IR-style scoring, uses advanced indexing, experiments show efficiency, scalability, high precision. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd5fd6eaa16493ad7
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00018712693
Overall Rank
412 | 97.24%
DOI
10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{cohen_vldb03,
        title = {{XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML}},
        author = {Cohen, Sara and Mamou, Jonathan and Kanza, Yaron and Sagiv, Yehoshua},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 39 of 39 citing papers.

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272 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022559588
321 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021093212
509 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00017102298
777 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00014059304
827 Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00013598945
1,177 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00011610316
1,914 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.3684002e-05
2,276 Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search 2007 SIGMOD 8.7023244e-05
2,406 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4962449e-05
2,424 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.4760069e-05
2,653 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 8.1494409e-05
2,677 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.1266688e-05
3,288 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.4398818e-05
3,323 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.4116032e-05
4,156 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.7602028e-05
4,225 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.7098929e-05
4,307 Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.6581902e-05
4,430 XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords 2007 VLDB 6.5872911e-05
4,523 Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search 2008 VLDB 6.5492396e-05
4,529 Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval 2006 SIGMOD 6.5450344e-05
5,152 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.2375943e-05
5,366 Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search 2008 SIGMOD 6.1464429e-05
6,285 Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates 2006 SIGMOD 5.807038e-05
7,344 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.5321368e-05
7,359 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 5.5286487e-05
7,362 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.5281595e-05
8,124 MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data 2013 SIGMOD 5.3739121e-05
8,546 XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities 2005 VLDB 5.3033443e-05
8,948 Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data 2009 CIDR 5.2361195e-05
9,566 Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers 2014 SIGMOD 5.1451811e-05
10,011 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.084061e-05
10,283 Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0334833e-05
11,583 Temporal JSON Keyword Search 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,478 Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence 2015 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,788 Using XMorph to Transform XML Data 2010 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,833 Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval 2009 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,851 ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents 2009 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,922 eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search 2008 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
13,049 An Algebraic Query Model for Effective and Efficient Retrieval of XML Fragments 2006 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 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
2,160 Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data 2001 PODS 8.9217916e-05
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