From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases

Summary: Neural databases use NLP transformers as localized query engines over natural-language facts. NeuralDB achieves SPJ over thousands of NL facts with high accuracy, yet faces scalability, set-based/aggregation gaps, motivating DB-NLP fusion research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12294
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 9.6624862e-05
Overall Rank: 2,057 | 85.70%
DOI: 10.14778/3447689.3447706

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,082	CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners	2024	CIDR	0.00014214232
4,630	Knowledge Graphs 2021: A Data Odyssey	2021	VLDB	6.0348379e-05
4,934	From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management	2022	VLDB	5.8198826e-05
5,509	Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?	2023	VLDB	5.4703368e-05
5,840	Logical and Physical Optimizations for SQL Query Execution over Large Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.3042561e-05
6,800	DTT: An Example-Driven Tabular Transformer for Joinability by Leveraging Large Language Models	2024	SIGMOD	4.9231471e-05
9,152	Doctopus: Budget-aware Structural Table Extraction from Unstructured Documents	2025	VLDB	4.3849295e-05
9,399	TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.3441378e-05
10,752	QUEST: Query Optimization in Unstructured Document Analysis	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,348	Pythia: Unsupervised Generation of Ambiguous Textual Claims from Relational Data	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
102	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	0.00049545203
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
221	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00033121824
300	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028441466
1,198	Crossing the Structure Chasm	2003	CIDR	0.00013366708

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