This page contains pointers to research papers and technical reports written at various points during the design of XQuery Full-Text, as well as during the development of GalaTex.

Papers

• TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery. S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. WWW 2004.
• On the Completeness of Full-Text Search Languages for XML. S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. Cornell University Technical Report, December 2003.
• XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents. Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. SIGMOD 2003.
• FleXPath: flexible structure and full-text querying for XML. Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank Pandit. SIGMOD 2004.
• XIRQL: An Extension of XQL for Information Retrieval. Norbert Fuhr and Kai Grossjohann. SIGIR 2000.
• The Index-Based XXL Search Engine for Querying XML Data with Relevance Ranking Source Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Anja Theobald and Gerhard Weikum. EDBT 2002.
• XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML. Sara Cohen, Jonathan Mamou, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv. VLDB 2003.
• JuruXML: Searching XML Documents via XML Fragments. David Carmel et al. SIGIR 2003.
• BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases. B. Aditya et al. VLDB 2002.
• DBXplorer: A System for Keyword-Based Search over Relational Databases. Sanjay Agrawal, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das. ICDE 2002.
• DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou. VLDB 2002.
• Schema-Free XQuery. Yunyao Li, Cong Yu, H.V. Jagadish. VLDB 2004.

Projects

• Quark: Unifying Database Systems and Information Retrieval Systems
• Timber