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Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases

Summary: NaLIR: interactive NL interface for relational databases, guiding user interaction to interpret complex queries across domains. Converts NL to SQL with aggregation, nesting, and joins; validated by user studies showing practical usability for naive users. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11184
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00034667032
Overall Rank
206 | 98.57%
DOI
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