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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…

The field of data visualisation has long aimed to devise solutions for generating visualisations directly from natural language text. Research in Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs) has contributed towards the development of such techniques.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Paula Maddigan , Teo Susnjak

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

One of the big challenges in Linked Data consumption is to create visual and natural language interfaces to the data usable for non-technical users. Ontodia provides support for diagrammatic data exploration, showcased in this publication…

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With the growing number and size of Linked Data datasets, it is crucial to make the data accessible and useful for users without knowledge of formal query languages. Two approaches towards this goal are knowledge graph visualization and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Dmitry Pavlov , Yury Emelyanov , Alexey Morozov

Visual exploration of high-dimensional real-valued datasets is a fundamental task in exploratory data analysis (EDA). Existing methods use predefined criteria to choose the representation of data. There is a lack of methods that (i) elicit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Kai Puolamäki , Emilia Oikarinen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

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

This paper presents a novel approach to translating natural language questions to SQL queries for given tables, which meets three requirements as a real-world data analysis application: cross-domain, multilingualism and enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yan Gao , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

International enterprises, organizations, and hospitals collect large amounts of multi-modal data stored in databases, text documents, images, and videos. While there has been recent progress in the separate fields of multi-modal data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Yi Zhang , Jonathan Furst , Kurt Stockinger

This paper presents a complete explainable system that interprets a set of data, abstracts the underlying features and describes them in a natural language of choice. The system relies on two crucial stages: (i) identifying emerging…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Flavio Bertini , Alessandro Dal Palù , Federica Zaglio , Francesco Fabiano , Andrea Formisano

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

Data visualization techniques proffer efficient means to organize and present data in graphically appealing formats, which not only speeds up the process of decision making and pattern recognition but also enables decision-makers to fully…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shashwat Aggarwal , Ramesh Singh

Tabular data provide answers to a significant portion of search queries. However, reciting an entire result table is impractical in conversational search systems. We propose to generate natural language summaries as answers to describe the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Shuo Zhang , Zhuyun Dai , Krisztian Balog , Jamie Callan

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

Existing approaches to constructing training data for Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks, such as for semi-structured table reasoning, are either via crowdsourcing or fully automatic methods. However, the former is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dibyakanti Kumar , Vivek Gupta , Soumya Sharma , Shuo Zhang

While recently developed NLP explainability methods let us open the black box in various ways (Madsen et al., 2022), a missing ingredient in this endeavor is an interactive tool offering a conversational interface. Such a dialogue system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Nils Feldhus , Qianli Wang , Tatiana Anikina , Sahil Chopra , Cennet Oguz , Sebastian Möller

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

We propose an approach to manipulate existing interactive visualizations to answer users' natural language queries. We analyze the natural language tasks and propose a design space of a hierarchical task structure, which allows for a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Can Liu , Jiacheng Yu , Yuhan Guo , Jiayi Zhuang , Yuchu Luo , Xiaoru Yuan

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

Exploratory search is an open-ended information retrieval process that aims at discovering knowledge about a topic or domain rather than searching for a specific answer or piece of information. Conversational interfaces are particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Phillip Schneider , Nils Rehtanz , Kristiina Jokinen , Florian Matthes