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Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity
Summary: SQUID extends QBE to semantic similarity, solving intent via abductive reasoning over open-world data to auto-create SPJ queries. Precomputed semantic properties in abduction-ready DBs enable inference, yielding accurate intents and outperforming baselines.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 11822
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2019
- Pagerank
- 6.8689912e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,661 | 74.54%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3342263.3342266
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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| 1,430 |
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| 7,303 |
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4.7684686e-05 |
| 8,383 |
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4.5307128e-05 |
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4.1945683e-05 |
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4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,518 |
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4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 54 |
DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases |
2002 |
VLDB |
0.00066047203 |
| 1,009 |
SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL |
2011 |
VLDB |
0.00014653644 |
| 1,459 |
Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00011889802 |
| 1,509 |
Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011612727 |
| 1,572 |
Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011298251 |
| 2,078 |
Sample-Driven Schema Mapping |
2012 |
SIGMOD |
9.599707e-05 |
| 2,576 |
S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
8.5112408e-05 |
| 2,717 |
REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries |
2018 |
VLDB |
8.2425675e-05 |
| 2,750 |
Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example |
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PODS |
8.176296e-05 |
| 2,982 |
FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
7.7801984e-05 |
| 3,663 |
Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries |
2017 |
VLDB |
6.8647221e-05 |
| 3,684 |
SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example |
2016 |
VLDB |
6.8465042e-05 |
| 4,636 |
Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples |
2017 |
PODS |
6.0303761e-05 |
| 5,208 |
Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
5.6296265e-05 |
| 6,564 |
SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification |
2015 |
VLDB |
5.0087945e-05 |
| 9,216 |
SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
4.3714077e-05 |
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