Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans
Summary: Introduces lantern, translating query execution plans into natural language to aid DB education. Uses a declarative pool and rule-based lantern for consistent NL generation, plus neural-lantern for varied paraphrase, validated by learner studies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Weiguo Wang
- 2. Sourav S Bhowmick
- 3. Hui Li
- 4. Siyuan Liu
- 5. Peng Chen
- 6. Shafiq Joty
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,780 | MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3298375e-05 |
| 7,139 | Automated Validating and Fixing of Text-to-SQL Translation with Execution Consistency | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.821174e-05 |
| 11,349 | LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204 | Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00034784455 |
| 206 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00034667032 |
| 454 | An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems | 1998 | PODS | 0.00022734812 |
| 535 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00020727678 |
| 567 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00019966681 |
| 984 | Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00014857465 |
| 1,430 | Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00012031061 |
| 1,673 | λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00010948717 |
| 2,816 | DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.0694738e-05 |
| 7,721 | Bootstrapping an End-to-End Natural Language Interface for Databases | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.6683091e-05 |
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