English
Related papers

Related papers: Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questi…

200 papers

Search typically relies on keyword queries, but these are often semantically ambiguous. We propose to overcome this by offering users natural language questions, based on their keyword queries, to disambiguate their intent. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Heng Ding , Krisztian Balog

Modern machine learning relies on datasets to develop and validate research ideas. Given the growth of publicly available data, finding the right dataset to use is increasingly difficult. Any research question imposes explicit and implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vijay Viswanathan , Luyu Gao , Tongshuang Wu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

The appearance of singularities in the function of interest constitutes a fundamental challenge in scientific computing. It can significantly undermine the effectiveness of numerical schemes for function approximation, numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Difeng Cai , Paulina Sepúlveda

The ad-hoc querying process is slow and error prone due to inability of business experts of accessing data directly without involving IT experts. The problem lies in complexity of means used to query data. We propose a new natural language-…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Janis Barzdins , Mikus Grasmanis , Edgars Rencis , Agris Sostaks , Juris Barzdins

Generating value from data requires the ability to find, access and make sense of datasets. There are many efforts underway to encourage data sharing and reuse, from scientific publishers asking authors to submit data alongside manuscripts…

As high-quality data becomes increasingly difficult to obtain, data-free self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm. This approach allows large language models (LLMs) to autonomously generate and solve complex problems, thereby…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhenrui Yue , Kartikeya Upasani , Xianjun Yang , Suyu Ge , Shaoliang Nie , Yuning Mao , Zhe Liu , Dong Wang

Unsupervised pre-training has led to much recent progress in natural language understanding. In this paper, we study self-training as another way to leverage unlabeled data through semi-supervised learning. To obtain additional data for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jingfei Du , Edouard Grave , Beliz Gunel , Vishrav Chaudhary , Onur Celebi , Michael Auli , Ves Stoyanov , Alexis Conneau

Natural language understanding involves reading between the lines with implicit background knowledge. Current systems either rely on pre-trained language models as the sole implicit source of world knowledge, or resort to external knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Vered Shwartz , Peter West , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

The growing reliance on data-driven decision-making highlights the need for more intuitive ways to access and analyze information stored in relational databases. However, the requirement of SQL knowledge has long been a significant barrier…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Steve Tueno Fotso

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

Generating structured query language (SQL) from natural language is an emerging research topic. This paper presents a new learning paradigm from indirect supervision of the answers to natural language questions, instead of SQL queries. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ziwei Bai , Bo Yu , Bowen Wu , Zhuoran Wang , Baoxun Wang

We investigate omni-supervised learning, a special regime of semi-supervised learning in which the learner exploits all available labeled data plus internet-scale sources of unlabeled data. Omni-supervised learning is lower-bounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ilija Radosavovic , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick , Georgia Gkioxari , Kaiming He

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bonaventure F. P. Dossou , Henri Aïdasso

This paper presents an open source methodology for allowing users to query structured non textual datasets through natural language Unlike Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG which struggles with numerical and highly structured information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hontan Valentin-Micu , Bunea Andrei-Alexandru , Tantaroudas Nikolaos Dimitrios , Popovici Dan-Matei

There have been multiple recent proposals on using deep neural networks for code search using natural language. Common across these proposals is the idea of $\mathit{embedding}$ code and natural language queries, into real vectors and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Jose Cambronero , Hongyu Li , Seohyun Kim , Koushik Sen , Satish Chandra

We present a supervised learning approach for automatic extraction of keyphrases from single documents. Our solution uses simple to compute statistical and positional features of candidate phrases and does not rely on any external knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Sriraghavendra Ramaswamy

This paper presents solo-learn, a library of self-supervised methods for visual representation learning. Implemented in Python, using Pytorch and Pytorch lightning, the library fits both research and industry needs by featuring distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Victor G. Turrisi da Costa , Enrico Fini , Moin Nabi , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Open data portals are essential for providing public access to open datasets. However, their search interfaces typically rely on keyword-based mechanisms and a narrow set of metadata fields. This design makes it difficult for users to find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Lisa-Yao Gan , Arunav Das , Johanna Walker , Elena Simperl

A long-standing challenge for search and conversational assistants is query intention detection in ambiguous queries. Asking clarifying questions in conversational search has been widely studied and considered an effective solution to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zhenduo Wang , Yuancheng Tu , Corby Rosset , Nick Craswell , Ming Wu , Qingyao Ai

Many text databases on the web are "hidden" behind search interfaces, and their documents are only accessible through querying. Search engines typically ignore the contents of such search-only databases. Recently, Yahoo-like directories…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Panagiotis Ipeirotis , Luis Gravano , Mehran Sahami
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›