Abstract
Multiple lines of research have developed Natural Language (NL) interfaces for formulating database queries. We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a highly detailed form of the answers in NL. The answers that we present are importantly based on the provenance of tuples in the query result, detailing not only the results but also their explanations. We develop a novel method for transforming provenance information to NL, by leveraging the original NL query structure. Furthermore, since provenance information is typically large and complex, we present two solutions for its effective presentation as NL text: One that is based on provenance factorization, with novel desiderata relevant to the NL case, and one that is based on summarization. We have implemented our solution in an end-to-end system supporting questions, answers and provenance, all expressed in NL. Our experiments, including a user study, indicate the quality of our solution and its scalability.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 577-588 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
| Event | 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017 - Munich, Germany Duration: 28 Aug 2017 → 1 Sep 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- General Computer Science