Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation
Summary: Introduces Ava, a chatbot that uses controlled natural language to let data scientists assemble templatized analytics pipelines, bridging natural-language business intents and executable workflows. Demonstrates a proof-of-concept showing practicality of constrained-NL plus templates to speed data-science tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rogers Jeffrey Leo John (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Navneet Potti (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{john_cidr17,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '17},
title = {{Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {John, Rogers Jeffrey Leo and Potti, Navneet and Patel, Jignesh M.},
year = {2017}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,255 | Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00011325762 |
| 2,011 | DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline | 2020 | SIGMOD | 9.1896169e-05 |
| 3,013 | Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale | 2022 | SIGMOD | 7.7541678e-05 |
| 3,250 | How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management | 2023 | VLDB | 7.4938546e-05 |
| 3,913 | DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.9295933e-05 |
| 4,497 | Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.5763072e-05 |
| 5,031 | Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.3055788e-05 |
| 5,744 | Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.009303e-05 |
| 9,663 | ShapeSearch: Flexible Pattern-based Querying of Trend Line Visualizations | 2018 | VLDB | 5.1453267e-05 |
| 10,171 | Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration | 2020 | CIDR | 5.0682654e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0002654471 |
| 439 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00018251249 |
| 537 | MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System | 2013 | CIDR | 0.00016768109 |
| 1,877 | Making the Case for Query-by-Voice with EchoQuery | 2016 | SIGMOD | 9.4533419e-05 |
| 2,452 | NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML | 2005 | SIGMOD | 8.445374e-05 |
| 2,463 | NAUDA: A Cooperative, Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases | 1993 | SIGMOD | 8.4288058e-05 |
| 5,095 | Microsoft English Query 7.5: Automatic Extraction of Semantics from Relational Databases and OLAP Cubes | 1999 | VLDB | 6.2746229e-05 |
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