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As the demand for querying databases in all areas of life continues to grow, researchers have devoted significant attention to the natural language interface for databases (NLIDB). This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mengyi Liu , Jianqiu Xu

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

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

Natural interface to database (NLIDB) has been researched a lot during the past decades. In the core of NLIDB, is a semantic parser used to convert natural language into SQL. Solutions from traditional NLP methodology focuses on grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ruiyang Xu , Ayush Singh

Natural Language Interfaces for Databases (NLIDBs) aim to make database querying accessible by allowing users to ask questions in everyday language rather than using formal SQL queries. Despite significant advancements in translation…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Panos Ipeirotis , Haotian Zheng

The task of building a natural language interface to a database, known as NLIDB, has recently gained significant attention from both the database and Natural Language Processing (NLP) communities. With the proliferation of geospatial…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Samya Acharja , Kanchan Chowdhury

Most existing natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBs) were designed to be used with ``snapshot'' database systems, that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data. Consequently, most NLIDBs also provide…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ion Androutsopoulos

Unlike most user-computer interfaces, a natural language interface allows users to communicate fluently with a computer system with very little preparation. Databases are often hard to use in cooperating with the users because of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Preeti Verma , Suket Arora , Kamaljit Batra

Over the last few years natural language interfaces (NLI) for databases have gained significant traction both in academia and industry. These systems use very different approaches as described in recent survey papers. However, these systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Katrin Affolter , Kurt Stockinger , Abraham Bernstein

Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are powerful because they are able to optimize and answer queries against any relational database. A natural language interface (NLI) for a database, on the other hand, is tailored to support…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Wenlu Wang , Yingtao Tian , Hongyu Xiong , Haixun Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku

Translating natural language queries (NLQ) into structured query language (SQL) in interfaces to relational databases is a challenging task that has been widely studied by researchers from both the database and natural language processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Arif Usta , Akifhan Karakayali , Özgür Ulusoy

Recent work on Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDB) has attracted considerable attention. NLIDB allow users to search databases using natural language instead of SQL-like query languages. While saving the users from having to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Qian Liu , Bei Chen , Jian-Guang Lou , Ge Jin , Dongmei Zhang

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) facilitates users to pose queries to retrieve information from a database without using any artificial language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL). Several applications in various domains…

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

The ability to extract insights from new data sets is critical for decision making. Visual interactive tools play an important role in data exploration since they provide non-technical users with an effective way to visually compose queries…

A critical challenge in constructing a natural language interface to database (NLIDB) is bridging the semantic gap between a natural language query (NLQ) and the underlying data. Two specific ways this challenge exhibits itself is through…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Christopher Baik , H. V. Jagadish , Yunyao Li

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant progress in Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB). However, the widespread adoption of LLMs has raised critical privacy and security concerns. During…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ruiheng Liu , XiaoBing Chen , Jinyu Zhang , Qiongwen Zhang , Yu Zhang , Bailong Yang

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

Most existing natural language database interfaces (NLDBs) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 I. Androutsopoulos , G. D. Ritchie , P. Thanisch

This paper describes DBPal, a new system to translate natural language utterances into SQL statements using a neural machine translation model. While other recent approaches use neural machine translation to implement a Natural Language…

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