The Document Concept In A Data Base

Summary: Proposes document as a DB concept and text as a data-type family with tree-structured descriptions and adaptable parameters. Adds formatting, mailing, and keyword-based information retrieval, implemented as a SOCRATE extension toward a generalized DBMS blending office applications with databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2259
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
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Overall Rank: 14,534 | 0.29%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582405

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Authors

1. I. Kowarski (Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble)
2. M. Lopez (Compagnie Internationale pour l'Informatique Honeywell Bull; Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kowarski_sigmod82,
        title = {{THE DOCUMENT CONCEPT IN A DATA BASE}},
        author = {Kowarski, I. and Lopez, M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582405},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582405},
        year = {1982}
}

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