Overview
- Explores techniques for building text-to-data and data-to text interfaces using natural language
- Covers theory and practical applications that empower readers to build effective natural language interfaces
- Introduces key concepts of querying, modeling, evaluating, and interactivity for NLIDB systems
Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Data Management (SLDM)
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About the authors
Dragomir Radev was the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He had been a Fellow of ACM, AAAI, AAAS, and ACL. Dragomir's interests were in semantic parsing, text summarization, natural language generation, logical reasoning, and information retrieval. Dragomir was the co-author of Graph-based Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval with Rada Mihalcea (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He was also the editor of a two-volume collection of problems from the North American Computational Linguistics Open Contest (NACLO), Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Red Book and Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Green Book (both published by Springer in 2013). Dragomir held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. Sadly, Drago passed away shortly before publication of this book in 2023.
Davood Rafiei holds the position of Professor of Computer Science and is an active member of the Database Systems Research Group at the University of Alberta. His areas of expertise span databases, information retrieval, and NLP with a focus on managing large complex data, data integration, and natural language interfaces to databases. He has co-authored the book Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces and, more recently, the article “DIN-SQL: Decomposed in-context learning of text-to-SQL with self-correction,” which held the top position on two major text-to-SQL leaderboards. Davood regularly serves on the program committees for major database and data mining conferences (such as SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, CIKM) and Web and IR conferences (such as WWW, SIGIR, WSDM). His academic journey includes undergraduate studies at Sharif University, a Master's degree from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting scientist at Google (2007-2008 ), Kyoto University (2014), and the University of Paris Descartes (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
Authors: Yunyao Li, Dragomir Radev, Davood Rafiei
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45043-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45042-6Published: 25 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45045-7Due: 10 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45043-3Published: 24 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2153-5418
Series E-ISSN: 2153-5426
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 90 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour
Topics: Database Management, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Storage and Retrieval, Theory of Computation