A Natural Language Interface for Querying General and Individual Knowledge

Summary: Proposes a modular NL-to-query translator partitioning questions into general-knowledge and individual-knowledge parts, translating each with appropriate methods, then merging into a crowd-mining query. State-of-the-art NL parsing; experiments show improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11209
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.5446256e-05
Overall Rank: 7,788 | 46.57%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824042

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Authors

1. Yael Amsterdamer (Tel Aviv University)
2. Anna Kukliansky (Tel Aviv University)
3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{amsterdamer_vldb15,
        title = {{A Natural Language Interface for Querying General and Individual Knowledge}},
        author = {Amsterdamer, Yael and Kukliansky, Anna and Milo, Tova},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1430--1433},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824042},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824042},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,602	Provenance for Natural Language Queries	2017	VLDB	6.6107638e-05
5,130	Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	6.354484e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
90	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034951786
179	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00026838277
439	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018464913
516	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00017171198
852	Leveraging Transitive Relations for Crowdsourced Joins	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013604253
3,914	Optimal Crowd-Powered Rating and Filtering Algorithms	2014	VLDB	7.0204052e-05
3,981	Natural Language Question Answering over RDF — A Graph Data Driven Approach	2014	SIGMOD	6.9746167e-05
4,568	CrowdMatcher: Crowd-Assisted Schema Matching	2014	SIGMOD	6.625684e-05
4,890	Descriptive and Prescriptive Data Cleaning	2014	SIGMOD	6.4590072e-05
5,474	CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding	2013	CIDR	6.2054029e-05
7,081	OASSIS: Query Driven Crowd Mining	2014	SIGMOD	5.7086247e-05
8,788	Managing General and Individual Knowledge in Crowd Mining Applications	2015	CIDR	5.3726124e-05

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