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Natural language interfaces (NLIs) for data visualization are becoming increasingly popular both in academic research and in commercial software. Yet, there is a lack of empirical understanding of how people specify visualizations through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Arjun Srinivasan , Nikhila Nyapathy , Bongshin Lee , Steven M. Drucker , John Stasko

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

A key challenge to visualization authoring is the process of getting familiar with the complex user interfaces of authoring tools. Natural Language Interface (NLI) presents promising benefits due to its learnability and usability. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yun Wang , Zhitao Hou , Leixian Shen , Tongshuang Wu , Jiaqi Wang , He Huang , Haidong Zhang , Dongmei Zhang

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) enable users to flexibly specify analytical intentions in data visualization. However, diagnosing the visualization results without understanding the underlying generation process is challenging. Our…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yingchaojie Feng , Xingbo Wang , Bo Pan , Kam Kwai Wong , Yi Ren , Shi Liu , Zihan Yan , Yuxin Ma , Huamin Qu , Wei Chen

Natural language (NL) toolkits enable visualization developers, who may not have a background in natural language processing (NLP), to create natural language interfaces (NLIs) for end-users to flexibly specify and interact with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Mitra , Arpit Narechania , Alex Endert , John Stasko

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 report on a systematic, PRISMA-guided survey of research at the intersection of LLMs and visualization, with a particular focus on visio-verbal interaction -- where verbal and visual modalities converge to support data sense-making. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mathis Brossier , Tobias Isenberg , Konrad Schönborn , Jonas Unger , Mario Romero , Johanna Björklund , Anders Ynnerman , Lonni Besançon

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) have shown great promise for visual data analysis, allowing people to flexibly specify and interact with visualizations. However, developing visualization NLIs remains a challenging task, requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Arpit Narechania , Arjun Srinivasan , John Stasko

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

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,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Enamul Hoque , Mohammed Saidul Islam

Through a natural language interface (NLI) for exploratory visual analysis, users can directly "ask" analytical questions about the given tabular data. This process greatly improves user experience and lowers the technical barriers of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yi Guo , Danqing Shi , Mingjuan Guo , Yanqiu Wu , Qing Chen , Nan Cao

We explore the integration of large language models (LLMs) into visual analytics (VA) systems to transform their capabilities through intuitive natural language interactions. We survey current research directions in this emerging field,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Pranava Madhyastha

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

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

Natural language generation (NLG) models have emerged as a focal point of research within natural language processing (NLP), exhibiting remarkable performance in tasks such as text composition and dialogue generation. However, their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yunchao Wang , Guodao Sun , Zihang Fu , Ronghua Liang

During the last decade, Natural Language Processing has become, after Computer Vision, the second field of Artificial Intelligence that was massively changed by the advent of Deep Learning. Regardless of the architecture, the language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Adrian M. P. Braşoveanu , Răzvan Andonie

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of vision-language (VL) intelligence from the perspective of time. This survey is inspired by the remarkable progress in both computer vision and natural language processing, and recent trends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Shilong Liu , Jian Guo , Lionel M. Ni , PengChuan Zhang , Lei Zhang

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) have become a prevalent medium for conducting visual data analysis, enabling people with varying levels of analytic experience to ask questions of and interact with their data. While there have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Arjun Srinivasan , Vidya Setlur

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

In this position paper, we present ideas about creating a next generation framework towards an adaptive interface for data communication and visualisation systems. Our objective is to develop a system that accepts large data sets as inputs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Grazziela P. Figueredo , Christian Wagner , Jonathan M. Garibaldi , Uwe Aickelin
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