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Multiple lines of research have developed Natural Language (NL) interfaces for formulating database queries. We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a highly detailed form of the answers in NL. The answers that we present are…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Amir Gilad

Tackling the information retrieval gap between non-technical database end-users and those with the knowledge of formal query languages has been an interesting area of data management and analytics research. The use of natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chantal Montgomery , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

In recent years, the DBLP computer science bibliography has been prominently used for searching scholarly information, such as publications, scholars, and venues. However, its current search service lacks the capability to handle complex…

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

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

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

As the use of technology increases and data analysis becomes integral in many businesses, the ability to quickly access and interpret data has become more important than ever. Information retrieval technologies are being utilized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Aliaksei Vertsel , Mikhail Rumiantsau

The problem of Natural Language Query Formalization (NLQF) is to translate a given user query in natural language (NL) into a formal language so that the semantic interpretation has equivalence with the NL interpretation. Formalization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Sourish Dasgupta , Rupali KaPatel , Ankur Padia , Kushal Shah

Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the…

Natural Language Interfaces for Databases (NLIDBs) aim to make database querying accessible by allowing users to ask questions in everyday language rather than using formal SQL queries. Despite significant advancements in translation…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Panos Ipeirotis , Haotian Zheng

We proposed Neural Enquirer as a neural network architecture to execute a natural language (NL) query on a knowledge-base (KB) for answers. Basically, Neural Enquirer finds the distributed representation of a query and then executes it on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Pengcheng Yin , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Ben Kao

We develop NL2INTERFACE to explore the potential of generating usable interactive multi-visualization interfaces from natural language queries. With NL2INTERFACE, users can directly write natural language queries to automatically generate a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yiru Chen , Ryan Li , Austin Mac , Tianbao Xie , Tao Yu , Eugene Wu

Natural language interfaces to tabular data must handle ambiguities inherent to queries. Instead of treating ambiguity as a deficiency, we reframe it as a feature of cooperative interaction where users are intentional about the degree to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Daniel Gomm , Cornelius Wolff , Madelon Hulsebos

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies have revolutionized the way we interact with information systems, with a significant focus on converting natural language queries into formal query languages such as SQL. However, less emphasis…

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In recent years, querying semantic web data using SPARQL has remained challenging, especially for non-expert users, due to the language's complex syntax and the prerequisite of understanding intricate data structures. To address these…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Xiangru Jian , Zhengyuan Dong , M. Tamer Özsu

Querying, conversing, and controlling search and information-seeking interfaces using natural language are fast becoming ubiquitous with the rise and adoption of large-language models (LLM). In this position paper, we describe a generic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Avishek Anand , Venktesh V , Abhijit Anand , Vinay Setty

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) facilitates users to pose queries to retrieve information from a database without using any artificial language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL). Several applications in various domains…

The ability to extract insights from new data sets is critical for decision making. Visual interactive tools play an important role in data exploration since they provide non-technical users with an effective way to visually compose queries…

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

This paper introduces NLDS-QL, a translator of data science questions expressed in natural language (NL) into data science queries on graph databases. Our translator is based on a simplified NL described by a grammar that specifies…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Genoveva Vargas-Solar , Karim Dao , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen
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