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Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years because it does not require users neither to master a certain structured query language nor to know the complex underlying database schemas. Most of existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Yanwei XU

We present Mirror, an open-source platform for data exploration and analysis powered by large language models. Mirror offers an intuitive natural language interface for querying databases, and automatically generates executable SQL commands…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley , Penghan Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential for applications such as text summarization, sentiment analysis, and automated question-answering. Recently, LLMs have also been integrated into relational database management systems to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kerem Akillioglu , Anurag Chakraborty , Sairaj Voruganti , M. Tamer Özsu

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

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

Open data portals are essential for providing public access to open datasets. However, their search interfaces typically rely on keyword-based mechanisms and a narrow set of metadata fields. This design makes it difficult for users to find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Lisa-Yao Gan , Arunav Das , Johanna Walker , Elena Simperl

Suggesting similar questions for a user query has many applications ranging from reducing search time of users on e-commerce websites, training of employees in companies to holistic learning for students. The use of Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Shriniwas Nayak , Anuj Kanetkar , Hrushabh Hirudkar , Archana Ghotkar , Sheetal Sonawane , Onkar Litake

We describe a meta-querying system for databases containing queries in addition to ordinary data. In the context of such databases, a meta-query is a query about queries. Representing stored queries in XML, and using the standard XML…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Van den Bussche , Stijn Vansummeren , Gottfried Vossen

In the domain of high-energy physics (HEP), query languages in general and SQL in particular have found limited acceptance. This is surprising since HEP data analysis matches the SQL model well: the data is fully structured and queried…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dan Graur , Ingo Müller , Mason Proffitt , Ghislain Fourny , Gordon T. Watts , Gustavo Alonso

SQL/PGQ and GQL are very recent international standards for querying property graphs: SQL/PGQ specifies how to query relational representations of property graphs in SQL, while GQL is a standalone language for graph databases. The rapid…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Amélie Gheerbrant , Leonid Libkin , Liat Peterfreund , Alexandra Rogova

Large language models have been used to translate natural language questions to SQL queries. Without hard constraints on syntax and database schema, they occasionally produce invalid queries that are not executable. These failures limit the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ying Jiao , Luc De Raedt , Giuseppe Marra

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

Optimizing the physical data storage and retrieval of data are two key database management problems. In this paper, we propose a language that can express a wide range of physical database layouts, going well beyond the row- and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-07 John K. Feser , Samuel Madden , Nan Tang , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper offers a comprehensive review of the research on Natural Language Generation (NLG) over the past two decades, especially in relation to data-to-text generation and text-to-text generation deep learning methods, as well as new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Chenhe Dong , Yinghui Li , Haifan Gong , Miaoxin Chen , Junxin Li , Ying Shen , Min Yang

Understanding search queries is a hard problem as it involves dealing with "word salad" text ubiquitously issued by users. However, if a query resembles a well-formed question, a natural language processing pipeline is able to perform more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Manaal Faruqui , Dipanjan Das

A critical challenge in constructing a natural language interface to database (NLIDB) is bridging the semantic gap between a natural language query (NLQ) and the underlying data. Two specific ways this challenge exhibits itself is through…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Christopher Baik , H. V. Jagadish , Yunyao Li

This paper focuses on a domain expert querying system over databases. It presents a solution designed for a French enterprise interested in offering a natural language interface for its clients. The approach, based on entity enrichment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Joshua Amavi , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari , Nicolas Hiot

Conversational search provides a more convenient interface for users to search by allowing multi-turn interaction with the search engine. However, the effectiveness of the conversational dense retrieval methods is limited by the scarcity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fengran Mo , Bole Yi , Kelong Mao , Chen Qu , Kaiyu Huang , Jian-Yun Nie

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

Text-to-SQL, the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries, is part of various business processes. Its automation, which is an emerging challenge, will empower software practitioners to seamlessly interact with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yewei Song , Saad Ezzini , Xunzhu Tang , Cedric Lothritz , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé Bissyandé , Andrey Boytsov , Ulrick Ble , Anne Goujon