DBMSs Should Talk Back Too
Summary: Proposes bidirectional DBMS natural-language interfaces that translate internal artifacts (SQL queries, stored records) back into expressive, unambiguous text for user verification and validation. Argues reverse translation is deceptively hard—needs research on fidelity, concision, disambiguation and usability, and outlines concrete problems and applications for query- and data-to-text mapping. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,673 | λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00010948717 |
| 5,452 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4999397e-05 |
| 6,007 | Data Vocalization with CiceroDB | 2019 | CIDR | 5.2415551e-05 |
| 8,111 | Databases will Visualize Queries too* | 2011 | VLDB | 4.5842786e-05 |
| 12,024 | Mirror mirror on the wall, which query's fairest of them all? | 2013 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
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