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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…

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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

The Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) technology provides non-expert users who are unfamiliar with databases the opportunity to use SQL for data analysis.Converting Natural Language to Business Intelligence (NL2BI) is a popular practical…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jinqing Lian , Xinyi Liu , Yingxia Shao , Yang Dong , Ming Wang , Zhang Wei , Tianqi Wan , Ming Dong , Hailin Yan

Data search for scientific research is more complex than a simple web search. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) and their applicability for scientific tasks offers new opportunities for researchers who are looking for data,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Anja Perry , Tanja Friedrich

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is essential for managing building data across the entire lifecycle, supporting tasks from design to maintenance. Natural Language Interface (NLI) systems are increasingly explored as user-friendly tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Han Gao , Timo Hartmann , Botao Zhong , Kai Lia , Hanbin Luo

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

NL2SQL systems aim to address the growing need for natural language interaction with data. However, real-world information rarely maps to a single SQL query because (1) users express queries iteratively (2) questions often span multiple…

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities in handling complex tasks. However, the complexity of agentic behaviors makes these systems difficult to understand. When failures occur,…

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It is a long term desire of the computer users to minimize the communication gap between the computer and a human. On the other hand, almost all ICT applications store information in to databases and retrieve from them. Retrieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Rukshan Alexander , Prashanthi Rukshan , Sinnathamby Mahesan

We present FinAI Data Assistant, a practical approach for natural-language querying over financial databases that combines large language models (LLMs) with the OpenAI Function Calling API. Rather than synthesizing complete SQL via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Juhyeong Kim , Yejin Kim , Youngbin Lee , Hyunwoo Byun

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an essential yet tedious process for examining a new dataset. To facilitate it, natural language interfaces (NLIs) can help people intuitively explore the dataset via data-oriented questions. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yi Guo , Nan Cao , Xiaoyu Qi , Haoyang Li , Danqing Shi , Jing Zhang , Qing Chen , Daniel Weiskopf

State of the art models using deep neural networks have become very good in learning an accurate mapping from inputs to outputs. However, they still lack generalization capabilities in conditions that differ from the ones encountered during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexey Romanov , Chaitanya Shivade

Progress in natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) has been slow mainly due to linguistic issues (such as language ambiguity) and domain portability. Moreover, the lack of a large corpus to be used as a standard benchmark has made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Florin Brad , Radu Iacob , Ionel Hosu , Traian Rebedea

Interactive tools make data analysis both more efficient and more accessible to a broad population. Simple interfaces such as Google Finance as well as complex visual exploration interfaces such as Tableau are effective because they are…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Haoci Zhang , Thibault Sellam , Eugene Wu

We investigate the use of Natural Language Inference (NLI) in automating requirements engineering tasks. In particular, we focus on three tasks: requirements classification, identification of requirements specification defects, and…

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The Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set (STILTS) is a powerful suite for astronomical data analysis, particularly useful when dealing with large datasets. However, like other software suites in astronomy its comprehensive syntax…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 R. A. Shaw , S. Fotopoulou , M. Taylor , M. Bremer

Interactive Natural Language Processing (iNLP) has emerged as a novel paradigm within the field of NLP, aimed at addressing limitations in existing frameworks while aligning with the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence. This paradigm…

Recent advances in Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed our approach to NLP tasks, shifting the focus towards a more Pragmatics-based approach. This shift enables more natural interactions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Roderick Tabalba , Christopher J. Lee , Giorgio Tran , Nurit Kirshenbaum , Jason Leigh

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages remains fundamentally constrained by the lack of textual corpora, standardized orthographies, and scalable annotation pipelines. While recent advances in large language models…

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The growing popularity and widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) necessitates the development of tools that enhance the effectiveness of user interactions with these models. Understanding the structures and functions of these…

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