LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education
Summary: LANTERN generates natural-language descriptions of query execution plans to aid database education. It offers POOL, a generic declarative framework for SMEs to author NL descriptions of physical operators, and combines rule-based and deep-learning techniques to diversify explanations and curb learner boredom. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Peng Chen (Xidian University)
- 2. Hui Li (Xidian University)
- 3. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
- 4. Shafiq R Joty (Nanyang Technological University)
- 5. Weiguo Wang (Xidian University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chen_sigmod22,
title = {{LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education}},
author = {Chen, Peng and Li, Hui and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Joty, Shafiq R and Wang, Weiguo},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3520165},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3520165},
year = {2022}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,003 | MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education | 2022 | VLDB | 5.9172558e-05 |
| 11,005 | ChatQPT: Towards Conversing with Relational Query Engines | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 85 | Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00035864347 |
| 776 | Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00014063545 |
| 9,173 | Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.2135302e-05 |
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