SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery
Summary: SQuID discovers user intent from a few example tuples via semantic similarity and data-driven associations beyond surface structure. An interactive demo shows the semantic context and lets users refine results through feedback, no schema or SQL required. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Anna Fariha (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 2. Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 3. Alexandra Meliou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{fariha_sigmod18,
title = {{SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery}},
author = {Fariha, Anna and Sarwar, Sheikh Muhammad and Meliou, Alexandra},
series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3183713.3193548},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3193548},
year = {2018}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,504 | Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity | 2019 | VLDB | 7.2516839e-05 |
| 6,600 | Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets | 2019 | VLDB | 5.7403306e-05 |
| 10,297 | Wred: Workload Reduction for Scalable Index Tuning | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.0430432e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,211 | Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00011524858 |
| 1,272 | Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00011248674 |
| 1,954 | Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need | 2014 | VLDB | 9.31794e-05 |
| 2,412 | S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.5101348e-05 |
| 3,481 | SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example | 2016 | VLDB | 7.2668673e-05 |
| 4,062 | The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries | 2016 | VLDB | 6.8247395e-05 |
| 4,838 | Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.3871056e-05 |
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| 9 | 4,208 | Querying Complex Structured Databases | 2007 | VLDB |
| 10 | 3,504 | Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity | 2019 | VLDB |