Microsoft English Query 7.5: Automatic Extraction of Semantics from Relational Databases and OLAP Cubes
Summary: Microsoft English Query 7.5 automatically constructs semantic models for natural-language querying from SQL databases and OLAP cubes via relationship heuristics. XML-based modeling and “Author by Example” learn additional semantics from failed questions, covering 70%+ of relationships. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Adam Blum (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{blum_vldb99,
title = {{Microsoft English Query 7.5: Automatic Extraction of Semantics from Relational Databases and OLAP Cubes}},
author = {Blum, Adam},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '99},
pages = {247},
year = {1999}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 314 | Making Database Systems Usable | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00021574636 |
| 3,381 | Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation | 2017 | CIDR | 7.4571963e-05 |
| 6,955 | DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.7303405e-05 |
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| 8 | 4,131 | Querying Complex Structured Databases | 2007 | VLDB |
| 9 | 13,113 | Kaleidoscope Data Model for An English-like Query Language | 1991 | VLDB |
| 10 | 10,117 | Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last? | 2026 | CIDR |