Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs

Summary: Syntactic mining of precision interfaces from analysis logs; widgets are I(q)→q' and interfaces are the expressible queries. Analyzes structural changes to generate a tailored UI; scales to 10k queries in ≤10s, shown on SDSS logs for simple unanticipated tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5746
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.4503063e-05
Overall Rank: 4,904 | 66.36%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3319872

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Authors

1. Qianrui Zhang (Tsinghua University)
2. Haoci Zhang (Columbia University)
3. Thibault Sellam (Columbia University)
4. Eugene Wu (Columbia University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod19,
        title = {{Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs}},
        author = {Zhang, Qianrui and Zhang, Haoci and Sellam, Thibault and Wu, Eugene},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3319872},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3319872},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,621	Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities	2018	SIGMOD	6.1472303e-05
5,919	PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.0426677e-05
7,921	Monte Carlo Tree Search for Generating Interactive Data Analysis Interfaces	2020	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
9,941	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	5.1915905e-05
11,658	Demonstrating Robust Voice Querying with MUVE: Optimally Visualizing Results of Phonetically Similar Queries	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,704	Robust Voice Querying with MUVE: Optimally Visualizing Results of Phonetically Similar Queries	2021	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,782	(Demo) Physical Visualization Design	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
94	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034616103
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
387	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019442332
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
986	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.0001281777
1,149	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.0001194728
1,165	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011860616
1,475	VisTrails: Visualization meets Data Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010662942
1,902	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.506714e-05
2,160	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.0607273e-05
2,677	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.2682753e-05
2,905	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.9756156e-05
3,381	Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation	2017	CIDR	7.4571963e-05
5,621	Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities	2018	SIGMOD	6.1472303e-05
9,268	Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web	2017	VLDB	5.295208e-05

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