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Dataset search is a well-established task in the Semantic Web and information retrieval research. Current approaches retrieve datasets either based on keyword queries or by identifying datasets similar to a given target dataset. These…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Qing Shi , Jing He , Qiaosheng Chen , Gong Cheng

Process querying is used to extract information and insights from process execution data. Similarly, process constraints can be checked against input data, yielding information on which process instances violate them. Traditionally, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Aaron Küsters , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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

Search query specificity is broadly divided into two categories - Exploratory or Lookup. If a query specificity can be identified at the run time, it can be used to significantly improve the search results as well as quality of suggestions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Manoj K. Agarwal , Tezan Sahu

Product search is generally recognized as the first and foremost stage of online shopping and thus significant for users and retailers of e-commerce. Most of the traditional retrieval methods use some similarity functions to match the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Jie Zou , Evangelos Kanoulas

In this paper, we present a framework for Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation (QDEE) in Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) such as Yahoo! Answers and Stack Overflow, which tackles a fundamental challenge in crowdsourcing:…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiankai Sun , Sobhan Moosavi , Rajiv Ramnath , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Is it possible to make statistical inference broadly accessible to non-statisticians without sacrificing mathematical rigor or inference quality? This paper describes BayesDB, a probabilistic programming platform that aims to enable users…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Vikash Mansinghka , Richard Tibbetts , Jay Baxter , Pat Shafto , Baxter Eaves

Constructive analysis of feedback from clients often requires determining the cause of their sentiment from a substantial amount of text documents. To assist and improve the productivity of such endeavors, we leverage the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ahmed Moubtahij , Sylvie Ratté , Yazid Attabi , Maxime Dumas

Intent detection aims to identify user intents from natural language inputs, where supervised methods rely heavily on labeled in-domain (IND) data and struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) intents, limiting their practical applicability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiao Wei , Xiaobao Wang , Ning Zhuang , Chenyang Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu dang

Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data;…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yipeng Zhang , Chen Wang , Yuzhe Zhang , Jacky Jiang

The Internet has revolutionized healthcare by offering medical information ubiquitously to patients via web search. The healthcare status, complex medical information needs of patients are expressed diversely and implicitly in their medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chenwei Zhang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Yaliang Li , Chun-Ta Lu , Philip S. Yu

Generation of sample data for testing SQL queries has been an important task for many years, with applications such as testing of SQL queries used for data analytics and in application software, as well as student SQL queries. More…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Sunanda Somwase , Parismita Das , S. Sudarshan

Discovering valuable insights from data through meaningful associations is a crucial task. However, it becomes challenging when trying to identify representative patterns in quantitative databases, especially with large datasets, as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Lamine Diop , Marc Plantevit

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Question Answering (QA) over Knowledge Base (KB) aims to automatically answer natural language questions via well-structured relation information between entities stored in knowledge bases. In order to make KBQA more applicable in actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bin Fu , Yunqi Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Yang Li , Haiyang Yu , Jian Sun

With the growing demand to fit fine-grained user intents, faceted query-by-example (QBE), which retrieves similar documents conditioned on specific facets, has gained recent attention. However, prior approaches mainly depend on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Heejin Do , Sangwon Ryu , Jonghwi Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

The task of text-to-SQL aims to convert a natural language question into its corresponding SQL query within the context of relational tables. Existing text-to-SQL parsers generate a "plausible" SQL query for an arbitrary user question,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bing Wang , Yan Gao , Zhoujun Li , Jian-Guang Lou

Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often in heterogeneous formats. This calls for tools and methods for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Eiter , Michael Fink , Hans Tompits

Flexible business processes can often be modelled more easily using a declarative rather than a procedural modelling approach. Process mining aims at automating the discovery of business process models. Existing declarative process mining…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Stefan Schönig

Text-to-SQL enables non-experts to retrieve data from databases by converting natural language queries into SQL. However, state-of-the-art text-to-SQL studies rely on the BIRD dataset, which assumes that evidence is provided along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Janghyeon Yun , Sang-goo Lee