Toward Pure Natural Language Interaction with Databases
Summary: Argues for 'pure' natural-language interfaces that allow non-experts to retrieve and join relational data without exposing SQL or schema details. Highlights barriers—opaque join semantics and complex production schemas—and situates the work among NLIDB efforts tackling schema linking and ambiguity resolution. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| 206 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00034667032 |
| 535 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00020727678 |
| 4,851 | Provenance for Natural Language Queries | 2017 | VLDB | 5.8768322e-05 |
| 7,530 | The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language | 1986 | VLDB | 4.7180617e-05 |
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