The INA: A Simple Query Language with Only Attribute Names

Summary: INA lets users query by domain terms and attribute names, treats the schema as a universal relation, and resolves attribute-relations bindings to SQL. It keeps a vocab with browsing, and in Army prototypes it produced queries comparable to analyst-written ones. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2505
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1990
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Overall Rank: 14,214 | 1.12%
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1. Bruce I. Blum
2. Ralph D. Semmel

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