λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives

Summary: Logos translates SQL into natural-language narratives by representing queries as graphs with extensible templates on edges. It uses graph traversal to generate descriptions and supports exploration over schemas with sample or ad hoc queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4579
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00010948717
Overall Rank: 1,673 | 88.37%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
6,007	Data Vocalization with CiceroDB	2019	CIDR	5.2415551e-05
6,826	Natural Language Interfaces for Databases with Deep Learning	2023	VLDB	4.9142824e-05
8,990	Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans	2021	SIGMOD	4.413295e-05
9,161	Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables	2019	SIGMOD	4.3849295e-05
11,521	DatAgent: The Imminent Age of Intelligent Data Assistants	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,577	Analysis of Database Search Systems with THOR	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,660	NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,800	Data Vocalization: Optimizing Voice Output of Relational Data	2017	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,024	Mirror mirror on the wall, which query's fairest of them all?	2013	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,371	DBMSs Should Talk Back Too	2009	CIDR	5.0930594e-05

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