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)
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Authors
- 1. Bruce I. Blum (Johns Hopkins University)
- 2. Ralph D. Semmel (Johns Hopkins University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{blum_sigmod90,
title = {{The INA: A Simple Query Language with Only Attribute Names}},
author = {Blum, Bruce I. and Semmel, Ralph D.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/93597.98750},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98750},
year = {1990}
}
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