Bridging the semantic gap with SQL query logs in natural language interfaces to databases

C Baik, HV Jagadish, Y Li - 2019 IEEE 35th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Crossdata: Leveraging text-data connections for authoring data documents

Z Chen, H Xia - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data documents play a central role in recording, presenting, and disseminating data.
Despite the proliferation of applications and systems designed to support the analysis …

Follow the successful herd: Towards explanations for improved use and mental models of natural language systems

M Brachman, Q Pan, HJ Do, C Dugan… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While natural language systems continue improving, they are still imperfect. If a user has a
better understanding of how a system works, they may be able to better accomplish their …

Flin: A flexible natural language interface for web navigation

S Mazumder, O Riva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12844, 2020 - arxiv.org
AI assistants can now carry out tasks for users by directly interacting with website UIs.
Current semantic parsing and slot-filling techniques cannot flexibly adapt to many different …

Towards enhancing database education: Natural language generation meets query execution plans

W Wang, SS Bhowmick, H Li, S Joty, S Liu… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The database systems course is offered as part of an undergraduate computer science
degree program in many major universities. A key learning goal of learners taking such a …

Bootstrapping a crosslingual semantic parser

T Sherborne, Y Xu, M Lapata - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02585, 2020 - arxiv.org
Recent progress in semantic parsing scarcely considers languages other than English but
professional translation can be prohibitively expensive. We adapt a semantic parser trained …

Natural language querying of complex business intelligence queries

J Sen, F Ozcan, A Quamar, G Stager, A Mittal… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB) eliminates the need for an end user to use
complex query languages like SQL by translating the input natural language statements to …

A natural language interface for database: Achieving transfer-learnability using adversarial method for question understanding

W Wang, Y Tian, H Wang, WS Ku - 2020 IEEE 36th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are powerful because they are able
to optimize and execute queries against relational databases. However, when it comes to …

Sketch2Vis: Generating data visualizations from hand-drawn sketches with deep learning

Z Teng, Q Fu, J White… - 2021 20th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data visualization has become a vital tool to help people understand the driving forces
behind real-world phenomena. Although the learning curve of visualization tools have been …

Spatialnli: A spatial domain natural language interface to databases using spatial comprehension

J Li, W Wang, WS Ku, Y Tian, H Wang - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A natural language interface (NLI) to databases is an interface that translates a natural
language question to a structured query that is executable by database management …