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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ruijie Wang , Zhiruo Zhang , Luca Rossetto , Florian Ruosch , Abraham Bernstein

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

The emergence of natural language processing has revolutionized the way users interact with tabular data, enabling a shift from traditional query languages and manual plotting to more intuitive, language-based interfaces. The rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Weixu Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yuanfeng Song , Victor Junqiu Wei , Yuxing Tian , Yiyan Qi , Jonathan H. Chan , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Haiqin Yang

Increasingly, keyword, natural language and NoSQL queries are being used for information retrieval from traditional as well as non-traditional databases such as web, document, image, GIS, legal, and health databases. While their popularity…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Hasan M. Jamil

Recent work on Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDB) has attracted considerable attention. NLIDB allow users to search databases using natural language instead of SQL-like query languages. While saving the users from having to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Qian Liu , Bei Chen , Jian-Guang Lou , Ge Jin , Dongmei Zhang

Over the past thirty years, there has been considerable progress in the design of natural language interfaces to databases. Most of this work has concerned snapshot databases, in which there are only limited facilities for manipulating…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 I. Androutsopoulos , G. D. Ritchie , P. Thanisch

With the future striving toward data-centric decision-making, seamless access to databases is of utmost importance. There is extensive research on creating an efficient text-to-sql (TEXT2SQL) model to access data from the database. Using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ayush Kumar , Parth Nagarkar , Prabhav Nalhe , Sanjeev Vijayakumar

Most existing natural language database interfaces (NLDBs) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 I. Androutsopoulos , G. D. Ritchie , P. Thanisch

A natural language interface (NLI) to databases is an interface that translates a natural language question to a structured query that is executable by database management systems (DBMS). However, an NLI that is trained in the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jingjing Li , Wenlu Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku , Yingtao Tian , Haixun Wang

Relational databases are foundational to numerous domains, including business intelligence, scientific research, and enterprise systems. However, accessing and analyzing structured data often requires proficiency in SQL, which is a skill…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Luyu Qiu , Jianing Li , Chi Su , Lei Chen

This paper describes DBPal, a new system to translate natural language utterances into SQL statements using a neural machine translation model. While other recent approaches use neural machine translation to implement a Natural Language…

Interacting with relational databases remains challenging for users across different expertise levels, particularly when composing complex analytical queries or performing administrative tasks. Existing systems typically address either…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xuan-Quang Phan , Tan-Ha Mai , Thai-Duy Dinh , Minh-Thuan Nguyen , Lam-Son Lê

NoSQL databases have become increasingly popular due to their outstanding performance in handling large-scale, unstructured, and semi-structured data, highlighting the need for user-friendly interfaces to bridge the gap between…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jinwei Lu , Yuanfeng Song , Zhiqian Qin , Haodi Zhang , Chen Zhang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Contemporary database systems, while effective, suffer severe issues related to complexity and usability, especially among individuals who lack technical expertise but are unfamiliar with query languages like Structured Query Language…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-25 M. Tedeschi , S. Rizwan , C. Shringi , V. Devram Chandgir , S. Belich

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) provide users with a convenient way to interactively analyze data through natural language queries. Nevertheless, interactive data analysis is a demanding process, especially for novice data analysts. When…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xingbo Wang , Furui Cheng , Yong Wang , Ke Xu , Jiang Long , Hong Lu , Huamin Qu

A natural language database interface (NLDB) can democratize data-driven insights for non-technical users. However, existing Text-to-SQL semantic parsers cannot achieve high enough accuracy in the cross-database setting to allow good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Peng Xu , Wenjie Zi , Hamidreza Shahidi , Ákos Kádár , Keyi Tang , Wei Yang , Jawad Ateeq , Harsh Barot , Meidan Alon , Yanshuai Cao

Over the last few years natural language interfaces (NLI) for databases have gained significant traction both in academia and industry. These systems use very different approaches as described in recent survey papers. However, these systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Katrin Affolter , Kurt Stockinger , Abraham Bernstein

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

Designing a reliable natural language (NL) interface for querying tables has been a longtime goal of researchers in both the data management and natural language processing (NLP) communities. Such an interface receives as input an NL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jonathan Berant , Daniel Deutch , Amir Globerson , Tova Milo , Tomer Wolfson

Along with the rapid development of information technology, the amount of information generated at a given time far exceeds human's ability to organize, search, and manipulate without the help of automatic systems. Now a days so many tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan