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)
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Authors
- 1. Weiguo Wang (Nanyang Technological University; Xidian University)
- 2. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
- 3. Hui Li (Xidian University)
- 4. Siyuan Liu (Nanyang Technological University)
- 5. Peng Chen (Xidian University)
- 6. Shafiq Joty (Nanyang Technological University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wang_sigmod21,
title = {{Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans}},
author = {Wang, Weiguo and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Li, Hui and Liu, Siyuan and Chen, Peng and Joty, Shafiq},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452822},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452822},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,881 | MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education | 2022 | VLDB | 6.0529753e-05 |
| 6,267 | Automated Validating and Fixing of Text-to-SQL Translation with Execution Consistency | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.9348282e-05 |
| 10,301 | Towards Selecting Informative Alternative Relational Query Plans for Database Education | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,547 | LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00035838391 |
| 179 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00026838277 |
| 290 | An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems | 1998 | PODS | 0.0002227038 |
| 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 |
| 865 | Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00013521464 |
| 1,808 | λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives | 2012 | SIGMOD | 9.7050949e-05 |
| 2,048 | Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 9.2560185e-05 |
| 2,778 | DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.1305875e-05 |
| 7,718 | Bootstrapping an End-to-End Natural Language Interface for Databases | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.5604921e-05 |
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