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: 3774
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 8.6124752e-05
Overall Rank: 2,412 | 83.46%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066281

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yunyao Li (University of Michigan)
2. Huahai Yang (State University of New York Albany)
3. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod05,
        title = {{NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML}},
        author = {Li, Yunyao and Yang, Huahai and Jagadish, H. V.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066281},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066281},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
179	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00026838277
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
459	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00018101318
555	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00016568053
3,381	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	7.4571963e-05
5,078	State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.3728705e-05
5,840	DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML	2007	SIGMOD	6.0693725e-05
7,345	NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation	2014	SIGMOD	5.6380973e-05
7,425	A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces	2011	VLDB	5.6214101e-05
8,136	Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources	2009	SIGMOD	5.4810135e-05
12,512	ExQueX: Exploring and Querying XML Documents	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537

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