A Transportable Natural Language Database Update System

Summary: Separates domain-independent NL parsing (case-frame meaning representation) from a domain-specific Program X that generates DML, enabling reuse of a single front end across databases. Introduces a verbgraph to map verbs/arguments to DB objects/attributes/constraints, easing porting. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 703
Venue: PODS
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 6.2478511e-05
Overall Rank: 5,363 | 63.21%
DOI: 10.1145/588011.588046

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sharon Salveter (Boston University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{salveter_pods84,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '84},
        title = {{A Transportable Natural Language Database Update System}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588011.588046},
        doi = {10.1145/588011.588046},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Salveter, Sharon},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,880	Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time	1986	VLDB	8.0033861e-05
4,606	Updating a Relational Database through a Universal Schema Interface	1985	PODS	6.6090168e-05
13,219	A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational Databases - Language Aspects	1985	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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