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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
12010
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
7.2076465e-05
Overall Rank
3,677 | 74.78%
DOI
10.14778/3342263.3342266

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BibTeX Citation

@article{fariha_vldb19,
        title = {{Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity}},
        author = {Fariha, Anna and Meliou, Alexandra},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1262--1275},
        doi = {10.14778/3342263.3342266},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3342263.3342266},
        year = {2019}
}

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2,048 Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries 2020 SIGMOD 9.2560185e-05
5,438 PATSQL: Efficient Synthesis of SQL Queries from Example Tables with Quick Inference of Projected Columns 2021 VLDB 6.2195845e-05
7,093 DICE: Data Discovery by Example 2021 VLDB 5.7056625e-05
8,362 EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions 2023 VLDB 5.4432545e-05
9,595 SuDocu: Summarizing Documents by Example 2020 VLDB 5.2504206e-05
10,042 Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias 2021 SIGMOD 5.1708123e-05
10,486 Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,013 Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,445 Cornet: Learning Table Formatting Rules By Example 2023 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,716 A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows 2021 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
37 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00048017193
846 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00013658824
1,192 Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction 2015 VLDB 0.00011740132
1,262 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011427456
1,313 Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries 2013 SIGMOD 0.00011186284
1,751 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 9.838446e-05
2,387 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.6482009e-05
2,631 FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering 2018 SIGMOD 8.3231158e-05
2,639 Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example 2013 PODS 8.3078378e-05
3,300 Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries 2017 VLDB 7.5412976e-05
3,422 SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example 2016 VLDB 7.426997e-05
3,444 REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries 2018 VLDB 7.4094584e-05
4,140 Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples 2017 SIGMOD 6.8765495e-05
4,644 Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples 2017 PODS 6.5901073e-05
6,892 SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification 2015 VLDB 5.7447134e-05
9,368 SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery 2018 SIGMOD 5.2778771e-05
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