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most citedThe Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready?

72 citations · 156 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.DB2026

Data Agents: Agentic Data Systems

Guoliang Li, Peiyao Zhou, Xuanhe Zhou +3

Traditional data systems face profound limitations in the AI era, relying on human-crafted pipelines, lacking semantic understanding of heterogeneous data, and operating through ri…

cs.AI2026

DataSpace: Benchmarking Data Agents for Verifiable Analytics over Heterogeneous Workspaces

Boyan Li, Zhuowen Liang, Yupeng Xie +11

Data agents enable natural-language analytics over organizational workspaces, where relevant evidence may be scattered across databases, structured files, long documents, and multi…

cs.DB2026

Data Agents: Levels, State of the Art, and Open Problems

Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Ju Fan +1

Data agents are an emerging paradigm that leverages large language models (LLMs) and tool-using agents to automate data management, preparation, and analysis tasks. However, the te…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

DeepAnalyze: Agentic Large Language Models for Autonomous Data Science

Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan, Meihao Fan +2

Autonomous data science, from raw data sources to analyst-grade deep research reports, has been a long-standing challenge, and is now becoming feasible with the emergence of powerf…

cs.DB2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Data Agents: Emerging Paradigm or Overstated Hype?

Yizhang Zhu, Liangwei Wang, Chenyu Yang +22

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has spurred the emergence of data agents, autonomous systems designed to orchestrate Data + AI ecosystems for tackling complex…

cs.CL2024

AutoPrep: Natural Language Question-Aware Data Preparation with a Multi-Agent Framework

Meihao Fan, Ju Fan, Nan Tang +3

Answering natural language (NL) questions about tables, known as Tabular Question Answering (TQA), is crucial because it allows users to quickly and efficiently extract meaningful…

cs.DB2024★ 50 cited

A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where are we, and where are we going?

Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li +7

Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support…

cs.DB2024★ 72 cited

The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready?

Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Chengliang Chai +2

Translating users' natural language questions into SQL queries (i.e., NL2SQL) significantly lowers the barriers to accessing relational databases. The emergence of Large Language M…

cs.DB2024★ 28 cited

HAIChart: Human and AI Paired Visualization System

Yupeng Xie, Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li +1

The growing importance of data visualization in business intelligence and data science emphasizes the need for tools that can efficiently generate meaningful visualizations from la…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Cost-Effective In-Context Learning for Entity Resolution: A Design Space Exploration

Meihao Fan, Xiaoyue Han, Ju Fan +4

Entity resolution (ER) is an important data integration task with a wide spectrum of applications. The state-of-the-art solutions on ER rely on pre-trained language models (PLMs),…