DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases
Summary: DBPal presents a learned NL-interface for data exploration that translates natural language to SQL with novel MT models robust to paraphrase. It also offers a learned auto-completion feature that suggests partial query extensions during formulation, aiding schema-agnostic, complex queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Fuat Basık (Bilkent University)
- 2. Benjamin Hättasch (Technical University of Darmstadt)
- 3. Amir Ilkhechi (Brown University)
- 4. Arif Usta (Bilkent University)
- 5. Shekar Ramaswamy (Brown University)
- 6. Prasetya Utama (Brown University)
- 7. Nathaniel Weir (Brown University)
- 8. Carsten Binnig (Brown University; Technical University of Darmstadt)
- 9. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bask_sigmod18,
title = {{DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases}},
author = {Basık, Fuat and Hättasch, Benjamin and Ilkhechi, Amir and Usta, Arif and Ramaswamy, Shekar and Utama, Prasetya and Weir, Nathaniel and Binnig, Carsten and Cetintemel, Ugur},
series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3183713.3193562},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3193562},
year = {2018}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 865 | Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00013521464 |
| 1,444 | CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications | 2023 | VLDB | 0.00010769944 |
| 5,078 | State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.3728705e-05 |
| 5,738 | SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.1045268e-05 |
| 9,112 | Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.3218986e-05 |
| 11,737 | DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks | 2021 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,785 | An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,855 | NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00026838277 |
| 459 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00018101318 |
| 2,050 | Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch | 2015 | VLDB | 9.2546631e-05 |
| 2,686 | On Improving User Response Times in Tableau | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.25822e-05 |
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