NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML

Summary: NaLIX offers an interactive NL interface to XML, enabling English queries with aggregation, nesting, and value joins. It translates NL to XQuery by mapping proximity to XML structure, with reformulation and usability features for practical queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3712
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 9.0497076e-05
Overall Rank: 2,313 | 83.92%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020727678
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
3,617	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	6.9091789e-05
4,140	DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML	2007	SIGMOD	6.4149008e-05
5,281	State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.5896272e-05
6,818	NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation	2014	SIGMOD	4.916347e-05
7,326	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	4.7612871e-05
7,397	A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces	2011	VLDB	4.7417648e-05
12,318	ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
548	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00020391259

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