English
Related papers

Related papers: Qr-Hint: Actionable Hints Towards Correcting Wrong…

200 papers

Converting natural language queries into SQL queries is a crucial challenge in both industry and academia, aiming to increase access to databases and large-scale applications. This work examines how in-context learning and chain-of-thought…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Saumya Chaturvedi , Aman Chadha , Laurent Bindschaedler

Traditional relational data interfaces require precise structured queries over potentially complex schemas. These rigid data retrieval mechanisms pose hurdles for non-expert users, who typically lack language expertise and are unfamiliar…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Anna Fariha , Alexandra Meliou

Automatic Question Answering (QA) systems rely on contextual information to provide accurate answers. Commonly, contexts are prepared through either retrieval-based or generation-based methods. The former involves retrieving relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jamshid Mozafari , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Effective information disclosure in the context of databases with a large conceptual schema is known to be a non-trivial problem. In particular the formulation of ad-hoc queries is a major problem in such contexts. Existing approaches for…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-24 H. A. Proper

Computer science educators seek to understand the types of mistakes that students make when learning a new (programming) language so that they can help students avoid those mistakes in the future. While educators know what mistakes students…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kai Presler-Marshall , Sarah Heckman , Kathryn T. Stolee

Formulating efficient SQL queries requires several cycles of tuning and execution, particularly for inexperienced users. We examine methods that can accelerate and improve this interaction by providing insights about SQL queries prior to…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Zainab Zolaktaf , Mostafa Milani , Rachel Pottinger

When users initiate search sessions, their queries are often unclear or might lack of context; this resulting in inefficient document ranking. Multiple approaches have been proposed by the Information Retrieval community to add context and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pierre Erbacher , Ludovic Denoyer , Laure Soulier

One of the most efficient methods for model compression is hint distillation, where the student model is injected with information (hints) from several different layers of the teacher model. Although the selection of hint points can…

Users often need to look through multiple search result pages or reformulate queries when they have complex information-seeking needs. Conversational search systems make it possible to improve user satisfaction by asking questions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Keping Bi , Qingyao Ai , W. Bruce Croft

LLM-driven tools have significantly lowered barriers to writing SQL queries. However, user instructions are often underspecified, assuming the model understands implicit knowledge, such as dataset schemas, domain conventions, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yunfan Zhou , Qiming Shi , Zhongsu Luo , Xiwen Cai , Yanwei Huang , Dae Hyun Kim , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

An improvement of Q-learning is proposed in this paper. It is different from classic Q-learning in that the similarity between different states and actions is considered in the proposed method. During the training, a new updating mechanism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Wei Liao , Xiaohui Wei , Jizhou Lai

The kind of help a student receives during a task has been shown to play a significant role in their learning process. We designed an interaction scenario with a robotic tutor, in real-life settings based on an inquiry-based learning task.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Maria Blancas-Muñoz , Vasiliki Vouloutsi , Riccardo Zucca , Anna Mura , Paul F. M. J. Verschure

One of the main challenges in ranking is embedding the query and document pairs into a joint feature space, which can then be fed to a learning-to-rank algorithm. To achieve this representation, the conventional state of the art approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Dana Sagi , Tzoof Avny , Kira Radinsky , Eugene Agichtein

This article introduces hinted dictionaries for expressing efficient ordered sets and maps functionally. As opposed to the traditional ordered dictionaries with logarithmic operations, hinted dictionaries can achieve better performance by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Amir Shaikhha , Mahdi Ghorbani , Hesam Shahrokhi

Context: Recent research indicates that Web queries written by software developers are not very successful in retrieving relevant results, performing measurably worse compared to general purpose Web queries. Most approaches up to this point…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mia Mohammad Imran , Kostadin Damevski

Suggested questions (SQs) provide an effective initial interface for users to engage with their documents in AI-powered reading applications. In practical reading sessions, users have diverse backgrounds and reading goals, yet current SQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zihao Lin , Zichao Wang , Yuanting Pan , Varun Manjunatha , Ryan Rossi , Angela Lau , Lifu Huang , Tong Sun

SQL is a central component of any database course. Despite the small number of SQL commands, students struggle to practice the concepts. To overcome this challenge, we developed an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) to guide the learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sören Aguirre Reid , Frank Kammer , Johannes Kunz , Timon Pellekoorne , Markus Siepermann , Jonas Wölfer

In recent years, the demand for automated SQL generation has increased significantly, driven by the need for efficient data querying in various applications. However, generating accurate SQL queries remains a challenge due to the complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Divyansh Jain , Eric Yang

With this work, we describe the concept of intent-based query rewriting and present a first viable solution. The aim is to allow rewrites to alter the structure and syntactic outcome of an original query while keeping the obtainable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gianna Lisa Nicolai , Patrick Hansert , Sebastian Michel

Text-to-SQL parsing involves the translation of natural language queries (NLQs) into their corresponding SQL commands. A principal challenge within this domain is the formulation of SQL queries that are not only syntactically correct but…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiping Liu , Zhao Tan