LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data
Summary: LearnPADS infers a PADS description from ad hoc data and generates parser, printer, validation, and traversal libraries to form tools. Directly from ASCII data, the tools offer XML/CSV conversion and Galax XQuery querying with no human intervention. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Kathleen Fisher (AT&T)
- 2. David Walker (Princeton University)
- 3. Kenny Zhu (Princeton University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{fisher_sigmod08,
title = {{LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data}},
author = {Fisher, Kathleen and Walker, David and Zhu, Kenny},
series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376759},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376759},
year = {2008}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,372 | Bistro Data Feed Management System | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 588 | Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00016092668 |
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