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20092026
most citedNatural Language Interfaces to Data

37 citations · 80 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.DB2026

VADER: Filtered Vector Search with Declarative Recall

Manos Chatzakis, Duo Lu, Helena Caminal +7

Approximate filtered vector search (FVS), a core operation in many data management tasks that combine structured data with vector embeddings, exhibits increased complexity due to t…

cs.IR2026

Fine-Grained Table Retrieval Through the Lens of Complex Queries

Wojciech Kosiuk, Xingyu Ji, Yeounoh Chung +2

Enabling question answering over tables and databases in natural language has become a key capability in the democratization of insights from tabular data sources. These systems fi…

cs.DB2025

SemBench: A Benchmark for Semantic Query Processing Engines

Jiale Lao, Andreas Zimmerer, Olga Ovcharenko +12

We present a benchmark targeting a novel class of systems: semantic query processing engines. Those systems rely inherently on generative and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the…

cs.DB2025

Is it Bigger than a Breadbox: Efficient Cardinality Estimation for Real World Workloads

Zixuan Yi, Sami Abu-el-Haija, Yawen Wang +8

DB engines produce efficient query execution plans by relying on cost models. Practical implementations estimate cardinality of queries using heuristics, with magic numbers tuned t…

cs.DB2025

SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications

Jinyang Li, Xiaolong Li, Ge Qu +17

Resolution of complex SQL issues persists as a significant bottleneck in real-world database applications. Current Large Language Models (LLMs), while adept at text-to-SQL translat…

cs.DB2025★ 3 cited

The Cambridge Report on Database Research

Anastasia Ailamaki, Samuel Madden, Daniel Abadi +43

On October 19 and 20, 2023, the authors of this report convened in Cambridge, MA, to discuss the state of the database research field, its recent accomplishments and ongoing challe…