Natural language has been the holy grail of query interface designers, but has generally
been considered too hard to work with, except in limited specific circumstances. In this …

In this demo, we present NaLIR, a generic interactive natural language interface for querying
relational databases. NaLIR can accept a logically complex English language sentence as …

Database management systems (or DBMSs) have been around for decades, and yet are still
difficult to use, particularly when trying to identify and fix errors in user programs (or queries) …

Understanding the meaning of existing SQL queries is critical for code maintenance and
reuse. Yet SQL can be hard to read, even for expert users or the original creator of a query …

With the increasing amount of available data and transformations manipulating the data, it
has become essential to analyze and debug data transformations. A sub-problem of data …

Designing natural language interfaces for querying databases remains an important goal
pursued by researchers in natural language processing, databases, and HCI. These …

Node-link visualizations are a familiar and powerful tool for displaying the relationships in a
network. The readability of these visualizations highly depends on the spatial layout used for …

Writing complex queries in SQL is a challenge for users. Prior work has developed several
techniques to ease query specification but none of these techniques are applicable to a …

Direct, ad-hoc interaction with databases has typically been performed over console-
oriented conversational interfaces using query languages such as SQL. With the rise in …

Query formulation is increasingly performed by systems that need to guess a user's intent
(eg via spoken word interfaces). But how can a user know that the computational agent is …