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: 0.00018778082
Overall Rank: 410 | 97.25%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50013-6

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sara Cohen (Hebrew University)
2. Jonathan Mamou (Hebrew University)
3. Yaron Kanza (Hebrew University)
4. Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University)

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.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
270	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022599109
319	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021164857
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
1,182	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.0001161771
1,906	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.3981082e-05
2,262	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	8.7333724e-05
2,396	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.5278724e-05
2,414	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	8.5081277e-05
2,643	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.177657e-05
2,666	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.1566309e-05
3,276	An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search	2005	VLDB	7.4678085e-05
3,312	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.4385614e-05
4,140	Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach	2009	SIGMOD	6.7854783e-05
4,208	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.7339511e-05
4,291	Efficient Algorithms for Exact Ranked Twig-Pattern Matching over Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	6.6827339e-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
4,521	Avatar Semantic Search: A Database Approach to Information Retrieval	2006	SIGMOD	6.5623633e-05
5,128	iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces	2007	VLDB	6.260847e-05
5,345	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.1697246e-05
6,273	Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates	2006	SIGMOD	5.8278142e-05
7,323	Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents	2011	SIGMOD	5.5524474e-05
7,335	EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search	2010	VLDB	5.5493346e-05
7,339	Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs	2007	VLDB	5.5490881e-05
8,099	MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data	2013	SIGMOD	5.3942942e-05
8,527	XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities	2005	VLDB	5.3229699e-05
8,920	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	5.2559789e-05
9,531	Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers	2014	SIGMOD	5.1646956e-05
9,974	A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases	2008	SIGMOD	5.1033245e-05
10,247	Top-k Relevant Semantic Place Retrieval on Spatial RDF Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.0525742e-05
11,528	Temporal JSON Keyword Search	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,429	Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,739	Using XMorph to Transform XML Data	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,784	Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval	2009	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,802	ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents	2009	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,874	eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,001	An Algebraic Query Model for Effective and Efficient Retrieval of XML Fragments	2006	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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	0.00036346781
2,148	Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data	2001	PODS	8.955397e-05

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