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For complex data types such as multimedia, traditional data management methods are not suitable. Instead of attribute matching approaches, access methods based on object similarity are becoming popular. Recently, this resulted in an…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Petra Budikova , Michal Batko , Pavel Zezula

Many disciplines pose natural-language research questions over large document collections whose answers typically require structured evidence, traditionally obtained by manually designing an annotation schema and exhaustively labeling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Shahar Levy , Eliya Habba , Reshef Mintz , Barak Raveh , Renana Keydar , Gabriel Stanovsky

Database research and development often require a large number of SQL queries for benchmarking purposes. However, acquiring real-world SQL queries is challenging due to privacy concerns, and existing SQL generation methods are limited in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jiale Lao , Immanuel Trummer

This paper describes the system of storage, extract and processing of information structured similarly to the natural language. For recursive inference the system uses the rules having the same representation, as the data. The environment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vjacheslav M. Novikov

Data wrangling is a time-consuming and challenging task in a data science pipeline. While many tools have been proposed to automate or facilitate data wrangling, they often misinterpret user intent, especially in complex tasks. We propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wei-Hao Chen , Weixi Tong , Amanda Case , Tianyi Zhang

We use many search engines on the Internet in our daily lives. However, they are not perfect. Their scoring function may not model our intent or they may accept only text queries even though we want to carry out a similar image search. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ryoma Sato

Natural Language Interfaces for Databases empower non-technical users to interact with data using natural language (NL). Advanced approaches, utilizing either neural sequence-to-sequence or more recent sophisticated large-scale language…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuankai Fan , Tonghui Ren , Can Huang , Zhenying He , X. Sean Wang

Many cultural institutions have made large digitized visual collections available online, often under permissible re-use licences. Creating interfaces for exploring and searching these collections is difficult, particularly in the absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Taylor Arnold , Lauren Tilton

Identifying trendline visualizations with desired patterns is a common and fundamental data exploration task. Existing visual analytics tools offer limited flexibility and expressiveness for such tasks, especially when the pattern of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tarique Siddiqui , Zesheng Wang , Paul Luh , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

An overarching goal of natural language processing is to enable machines to communicate seamlessly with humans. However, natural language can be ambiguous or unclear. In cases of uncertainty, humans engage in an interactive process known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Julia White , Gabriel Poesia , Robert Hawkins , Dorsa Sadigh , Noah Goodman

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

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

This paper presents TableQuery, a novel tool for querying tabular data using deep learning models pre-trained to answer questions on free text. Existing deep learning methods for question answering on tabular data have various limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abhijith Neil Abraham , Fariz Rahman , Damanpreet Kaur

Large Language Models have rapidly advanced in their ability to interpret and generate natural language. In enterprise settings, they are frequently augmented with closed-source domain knowledge to deliver more contextually informed…

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The exponential growth of textual data has created a crucial need for tools that assist users in extracting meaningful insights. Traditional document summarization approaches often fail to meet individual user requirements and lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Samira Ghodratnama , Amin Beheshti , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Generating accurate SQL from users' natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database schema comprehension, and SQL generation. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zijin Hong , Zheng Yuan , Qinggang Zhang , Hao Chen , Junnan Dong , Feiran Huang , Xiao Huang

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has accelerated the long-standing goal of enabling natural language querying over complex, hybrid databases. Yet, this ambition exposes a dual challenge: reasoning jointly over structured,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Aymane Hassini

Our goal is to create a convenient natural language interface for performing well-specified but complex actions such as analyzing data, manipulating text, and querying databases. However, existing natural language interfaces for such tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sida I. Wang , Samuel Ginn , Percy Liang , Christoper D. Manning

Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, web table question answering, and image table information extraction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizheng Lu , Jing Zhang , Ju Fan , Zihao Fu , Yueguo Chen , Xiaoyong Du

Helping end users comprehend the abstract distribution shifts can greatly facilitate AI deployment. Motivated by this, we propose a novel task, dataset explanation. Given two image data sets, dataset explanation aims to automatically point…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zhiying Zhu , Weixin Liang , James Zou