Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes
Summary: Symphony enables NL queries over multi-modal data lakes (tables + text) without upfront integration, using cross-modality representation learning to locate relevant sources. It decomposes NL questions into per-source subqueries, executes them and fuses results; preliminarily validated on Wikipedia tables/text. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zui Chen (Tsinghua University)
- 2. Zihui Gu (Renmin University of China)
- 3. Lei Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Arizona)
- 4. Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)
- 5. Sam Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 6. Nan Tang (Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Qatar Computing Research Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chen_cidr23,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '23},
title = {{Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Chen, Zui and Gu, Zihui and Cao, Lei and Fan, Ju and Madden, Sam and Tang, Nan},
year = {2023}
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| 329 | Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? | 2023 | VLDB | 0.00020867521 |
| 460 | Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00017850215 |
| 778 | Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00014066246 |
| 972 | The Data Civilizer System | 2017 | CIDR | 0.00012757732 |
| 1,993 | RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation | 2021 | VLDB | 9.2348951e-05 |
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