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Provenance for Natural Language Queries

Summary: End-to-end NL QA system delivering provenance-enabled answers with explanations tied to query provenance. Introduces two NL provenance views—factorization and summarization—turning large provenance into readable NL, with experiments and a user study on quality and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hae20afee4bd5988e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
6.4706848e-05
Overall Rank
4,687 | 68.49%
DOI
10.14778/3055540.3055548

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BibTeX Citation

@article{deutch_vldb17,
        title = {{Provenance for Natural Language Queries}},
        author = {Deutch, Daniel and Frost, Nave and Gilad, Amir},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {5},
        pages = {577--588},
        doi = {10.14778/3055540.3055548},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3055540.3055548},
        year = {2017}
}

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Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

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1,746 SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed 2018 VLDB 9.7341914e-05
2,835 Fine-Grained, Secure and Efficient Data Provenance on Blockchain Systems 2019 VLDB 7.9553846e-05
5,529 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.0935553e-05
7,508 ExplainED: Explanations for EDA Notebooks 2020 VLDB 5.5066763e-05
8,355 FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps 2022 VLDB 5.3482186e-05
9,373 Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.1868213e-05
12,051 Toward Pure Natural Language Interaction with Databases 2020 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
12,237 Provenance Summaries for Answers and Non-Answers 2018 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059752575
180 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.0002654471
670 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00014954494
943 Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities 2008 SIGMOD 0.00012945546
1,588 DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance 2005 SIGMOD 0.00010140362
1,610 Efficient Provenance Storage 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010076616
1,785 Approximate Lineage for Probabilistic Databases 2008 VLDB 9.6482655e-05
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5545888e-05
2,290 FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases 2012 VLDB 8.6889284e-05
2,463 NAUDA: A Cooperative, Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases 1993 SIGMOD 8.4288058e-05
6,708 Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries 2015 VLDB 5.7027474e-05
6,770 Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 5.6866955e-05
7,950 A Natural Language Interface for Querying General and Individual Knowledge 2015 VLDB 5.4207861e-05
7,951 Provenance: On and Behind the Screens 2016 SIGMOD 5.4199617e-05
9,414 Provenance for SQL through Abstract Interpretation: Value-less, but Worthwhile 2015 VLDB 5.1815574e-05
9,940 NLProv: Natural Language Provenance 2016 VLDB 5.1062975e-05
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