Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text
Summary: Grammar-based data modeling for text-dominated databases: grammars as schemas and parsed strings as instances. Defines a p-string algebra with non-navigational operators for data manipulation and views, enabling representation-independent, hardware-agnostic storage and processing; investigates storage structures and algorithms for representative hardware. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Gaston H. Gonnet (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Frank Wm. Tompa (University of Waterloo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gonnet_vldb87,
title = {{Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text}},
author = {Gonnet, Gaston H. and Tompa, Frank Wm.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '87},
pages = {339--346},
year = {1987}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 571 | From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.0001632382 |
| 2,588 | Optimizing Queries on Files | 1994 | SIGMOD | 8.3742403e-05 |
| 2,708 | Cut and Paste | 1997 | PODS | 8.2272626e-05 |
| 3,743 | Fast Text Access Methods for Optical and Large Magnetic Disks: Designs and Performance Comparison | 1988 | VLDB | 7.1577197e-05 |
| 4,899 | A Grammar-Based Approach Towards Unifying Hierarchical Data Models (extended abstract) | 1989 | SIGMOD | 6.4539543e-05 |
| 5,130 | Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.354484e-05 |
| 5,635 | Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | PODS | 6.1408026e-05 |
| 6,318 | Query Automata (extended abstract) | 1999 | PODS | 5.9150511e-05 |
| 6,319 | Expressiveness of Structured Document Query Languages Based on Attribute Grammars (extended abstract) | 1998 | PODS | 5.9150511e-05 |
| 13,119 | Bayan: An Arabic Text Database Management System | 1990 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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