Bootstrapping an End-to-End Natural Language Interface for Databases
Summary: Bootstraps an end-to-end NL-to-SQL interface for unseen schemas with a synthetic data generator that creates domain-agnostic training data. Enables robust models in new domains with minimal labeling, addressing data-scarcity for NL in databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Nathaniel Weir (Brown University)
- 2. Prasetya Utama (Technical University of Darmstadt)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{weir_sigmod19,
title = {{Bootstrapping an End-to-End Natural Language Interface for Databases}},
author = {Weir, Nathaniel and Utama, Prasetya},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300105},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300105},
year = {2019}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,078 | State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.3728705e-05 |
| 9,112 | Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.3218986e-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 |
| 555 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00016568053 |
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