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Natural language and visualization are two complementary modalities of human communication that play a crucial role in conveying information effectively. While visualizations help people discover trends, patterns, and anomalies in data,…

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We present our vision for developing an automated tool capable of translating visual properties observed in Machine Learning (ML) visualisations into Python assertions. The tool aims to streamline the process of manually verifying these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Arumoy Shome , Luis Cruz , Arie van Deursen

Although data visualization is powerful for revealing patterns and communicating insights, creating effective visualizations requires familiarity with authoring tools and often disrupts the analysis flow. While large language models show…

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This paper provides a comprehensive review of the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual analytics, addressing their foundational concepts, capabilities, and wide-ranging applications. It begins by outlining the theoretical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Navya Sonal Agarwal , Sanjay Kumar Sonbhadra

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

Current video analytics approaches face a fundamental trade-off between flexibility and efficiency. End-to-end Vision Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with long-context processing and incur high computational costs, while…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiangru Jian , Wei Pang , Zhengyuan Dong , Chao Zhang , M. Tamer Özsu

As the demand for querying databases in all areas of life continues to grow, researchers have devoted significant attention to the natural language interface for databases (NLIDB). This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mengyi Liu , Jianqiu Xu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their reasoning abilities remain underexplored. Existing benchmarks tend to focus on perception or text-based comprehension,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiang Li , Wenyue Hua , Kaijie Zhu , Lingyao Li , Haoyang Ling , Jinkui Chi , Qi Dou , Jindong Wang , Yongfeng Zhang , Xin Ma , Lizhou Fan

Recent advances in Generative AI have transformed how users interact with data analysis through natural language interfaces. However, many systems rely too heavily on LLMs, creating risks of hallucination, opaque reasoning, and reduced user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ratanond Koonchanok , Alex Kale , Khairi Reda

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

We develop an iterative assistant we call ChatVis that can synthetically generate Python scripts for data analysis and visualization using a large language model (LLM). The assistant allows a user to specify the operations in natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Tanwi Mallick , Orcun Yildiz , David Lenz , Tom Peterka

Visualization is central to scientific discovery, yet authoring tools remain split between information and scientific visualization, and expertise in one rarely transfers to the other. Large Language Model (LLM) based systems promise to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alexandra Irger , Ella Hugie , Minghao Guo , Simon Warchol , Kenneth Moreland , David Pugmire , Wojciech Matusik , Hanspeter Pfister

Recently, there has been an increasing number of efforts to introduce models capable of generating natural language explanations (NLEs) for their predictions on vision-language (VL) tasks. Such models are appealing, because they can provide…

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Prior natural language datasets for data visualization have focused on tasks such as visualization literacy assessment, insight generation, and visualization generation from natural language instructions. These studies often rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly increasing in capability, but they still struggle with highly specialized programming tasks such as scientific visualization. We present an LLM assistant, ChatVis, that aids the LLM to generate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Tom Peterka , Tanwi Mallick , Orcun Yildiz , David Lenz , Cory Quammen , Berk Geveci

Open-domain dialogue generation in natural language processing (NLP) is by default a pure-language task, which aims to satisfy human need for daily communication on open-ended topics by producing related and informative responses. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Lei Shen , Haolan Zhan , Xin Shen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao

A natural language interface exploits the conceptual simplicity and naturalness of the language to create a high-level user-friendly communication channel between humans and machines. One of the promising applications of such interfaces is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Kaveh Hassani , Won-Sook Lee

NL2VIS - which translates natural language (NL) queries to corresponding visualizations (VIS) - has attracted more and more attention both in commercial visualization vendors and academic researchers. In the last few years, the advanced…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuyu Luo , Jiawei Tang , Guoliang Li

Data visualizations help extract insights from datasets, but reaching these insights requires decomposing high level goals into low-level analytic tasks that can be complex due to varying degrees of data literacy and visualization…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zhongzheng Xu , Emily Wall

Natural Language Explanation (NLE) aims to elucidate the decision-making process by providing detailed, human-friendly explanations in natural language. It helps demystify the decision-making processes of large vision-language models…

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