ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores
Summary: ATHENA: ontology-driven NLQ over relational stores. A two-stage NLQ→OQL→SQL pipeline decouples semantic view from physical schema; ontology-driven reasoning yields 100% precision on GEO/MAS and 99% on FIN with ~88% recall across workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00065993143 |
| 205 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00034651121 |
| 1,153 | SQAK: Doing More with Keywords | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00013633055 |
| 1,168 | SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00013531301 |
| 1,686 | QUEST: A Keyword Search System for Relational Data based on Semantic and Machine Learning Techniques | 2013 | VLDB | 0.0001090887 |
| 2,027 | Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 9.7396736e-05 |
| 2,277 | NAUDA: A Cooperative, Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases | 1993 | SIGMOD | 9.1316434e-05 |
| 2,320 | NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML | 2005 | SIGMOD | 9.0414295e-05 |
| 4,325 | Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input | 2015 | SIGMOD | 6.2785065e-05 |
| 4,796 | Extending Practical Pre-Aggregation in On-Line Analytical Processing | 1999 | VLDB | 5.9104535e-05 |
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