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Generative text-to-image models have gained great popularity among the public for their powerful capability to generate high-quality images based on natural language prompts. However, developing effective prompts for desired images can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yingchaojie Feng , Xingbo Wang , Kam Kwai Wong , Sijia Wang , Yuhong Lu , Minfeng Zhu , Baicheng Wang , Wei Chen

In this paper I argue that the search for explainable models and interpretable decisions in AI must be reformulated in terms of the broader project of offering a pragmatic and naturalistic account of understanding in AI. Intuitively, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Andrés Páez

There is a plethora of datasets in various formats which are usually stored in files, hosted in catalogs, or accessed through SPARQL endpoints. In most cases, these datasets cannot be straightforwardly explored by end users, for satisfying…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Anna Kokolaki , Yannis Tzitzikas

Text-to-SQL systems enable users to query databases using natural language, democratizing access to data analytics. However, they face challenges in understanding ambiguous phrasing, domain-specific vocabulary, and complex schema…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tetiana Gladkykh , Kyrylo Kirykov

This work designs, evaluates, and improves a proposed search engine interface for Visually Impaired VI users to efficiently perform web search activities. Our conceptual modeling technique is based on Formal Concept Analysis FCA that is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Aboubakr Aqle , Kamran Khowaja , Dena Al-Thani

We present ECLAIR (Enhanced CLArification for Interactive Responses), a novel unified and end-to-end framework for interactive disambiguation in enterprise AI assistants. ECLAIR generates clarification questions for ambiguous user queries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 John Murzaku , Zifan Liu , Md Mehrab Tanjim , Vaishnavi Muppala , Xiang Chen , Yunyao Li

Establishing shared goals is a fundamental step in human-AI communication. However, ambiguities can lead to outputs that seem correct but fail to reflect the speaker's intent. In this paper, we explore this issue with a focus on the data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mert İnan , Anthony Sicilia , Alex Xie , Saujas Vaduguru , Daniel Fried , Malihe Alikhani

This paper presents a novel approach to translating natural language questions to SQL queries for given tables, which meets three requirements as a real-world data analysis application: cross-domain, multilingualism and enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yan Gao , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

Transcripts displayed on dictation interfaces can be hard to read due to recognition errors and disfluencies. LLM-based text auto-correction could help, but changing the text during production could lead to distraction and unintended…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhaohui Liang , Yonglin Chen , Naser Al Madi , Can Liu

Natural-language-to-SQL (NL-to-SQL) systems hold promise for democratizing access to structured data, allowing users to query databases without learning SQL. Yet existing systems struggle with realistic spatio-temporal queries, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Manu Redd , Tao Zhe , Dongjie Wang

In the deeply interconnected world we live in, pieces of information link domains all around us. As graph databases embrace effectively relationships among data and allow processing and querying these connections efficiently, they are…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Sergio Abriola , Santiago Cifuentes , María Vanina Martínez , Nina Pardal , Edwin Pin

Interactive semantic parsing based on natural language (NL) feedback, where users provide feedback to correct the parser mistakes, has emerged as a more practical scenario than the traditional one-shot semantic parsing. However, prior work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hao Yan , Saurabh Srivastava , Yintao Tai , Sida I. Wang , Wen-tau Yih , Ziyu Yao

Consistency of knowledge repositories is of prime importance in organization management. Integrity constraints are a well-known vehicle for specifying data consistency requirements in knowledge bases; in particular, active integrity…

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

Natural language instructions are a powerful interface for editing the outputs of text-to-image diffusion models. However, several challenges need to be addressed: 1) underspecification (the need to model the implicit meaning of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Kanishk Singh , Arkadiy Saakyan , Smaranda Muresan

Querying a relational database is difficult because it requires users to know both the SQL language and be familiar with the schema. On the other hand, many users possess enough domain familiarity or expertise to describe their desired…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Christopher Baik , Zhongjun Jin , Michael Cafarella , H. V. Jagadish

Expressing design intent using natural language prompts requires designers to verbalize the ambiguous visual details concisely, which can be challenging or even impossible. To address this, we introduce Brickify, a visual-centric…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xinyu Shi , Yinghou Wang , Ryan Rossi , Jian Zhao

Counterfactual explanations provide human-understandable reasoning for AI-made decisions by describing minimal changes to input features that would alter a model's prediction. To be truly useful in practice, such explanations must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Asiful Arefeen , Shovito Barua Soumma , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

The standard way to teach models is by feeding them lots of data. However, this approach often teaches models incorrect ideas because they pick up on misleading signals in the data. To prevent such misconceptions, we must necessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yoonho Lee , Michelle S. Lam , Helena Vasconcelos , Michael S. Bernstein , Chelsea Finn