Selected Recent Publications

Recent publications by the lab in reversed chronological order.

2024

  1. EDBT
    QPSeeker: An Efficient Neural Planner combining both data and queries through Variational Inference
    In Proceedings 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2024, Paestum, Italy, March 25 - March 28
  2. VLDB
    ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems
    Zhang, Yi, Deriu, Jan, Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, George, Kosten, Catherine, Koutrika, Georgia, and Stockinger, Kurt
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  3. ICDE
    FreqyWM: Frequency Watermarking for the New Data Economy
    İşler, Devriş, Cabana, Elisa, García-Recuero, Álvaro, Koutrika, Georgia, and Laoutaris, Nikolaos
    In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

2023

  1. VLDB
    Natural Language Interfaces for Databases with Deep Learning
    Proc. VLDB Endow. Sep
  2. BigVis
    Natural Language Data Interfaces: From Keyword Search to ChatGPT, are we there yet?
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2023 Joint Conference
  3. WSDM
    Data Democratisation with Deep Learning: The Anatomy of a Natural Language Data Interface
    In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
  4. VLDBJ
    A survey on deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL
    The VLDB Journal

2022

  1. TWC
    Data Democratisation with Deep Learning: An Analysis of Text-to-SQL Systems
    In Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022

2021

  1. SIGMOD
    A Deep Dive into Deep Learning Approaches for Text-to-SQL Systems
    In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data
  2. EDBT
    Deep Learning Approaches for Text-to-SQL Systems.
    In EDBT
  3. VLDB
    DatAgent: the imminent age of intelligent data assistants
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  4. VLDB
    Let the Database Talk Back: Natural Language Explanations for SQL
    Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Search, Exploration, and Analysis in Heterogeneous Datastores, co-located with VLDB 2021
  5. SIGMOD
    An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems
    Gkini, Orest, Belmpas, Theofilos, Koutrika, Georgia, and Ioannidis, Yannis
  6. SIGMOD
    PyExplore: Query Recommendations for Data Exploration without Query Logs
    In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data
  7. CoRR
    Fairness in Rankings and Recommendations: An Overview
    Pitoura, Evaggelia, Stefanidis, Kostas, and Koutrika, Georgia
    CoRR
  8. CoRR
    INODE: Building an End-to-End Data Exploration System in Practice [Extended Vision]
    Amer-Yahia, Sihem, Koutrika, Georgia, Bastian, Frederic, Belmpas, Theofilos, Braschler, Martin, Brunner, Ursin, Calvanese, Diego, Fabricius, Maximilian, Gkini, Orest, Kosten, Catherine, Lanti, Davide, Litke, Antonis, Lücke-Tieke, Hendrik, Massucci, Francesco Alessandro, Farias, Tarcisio Mendes, Mosca, Alessandro, Multari, Francesco, Papadakis, Nikolaos, Papadopoulos, Dimitris, Patil, Yogendra, Personnaz, Aurélien, Rull, Guillem, Sima, Ana Claudia, Smith, Ellery, Skoutas, Dimitrios, Subramanian, Srividya, Xiao, Guohui, and Stockinger, Kurt
    CoRR
  9. Fairness-aware Methods in Rankings and Recommenders
    Pitoura, Evaggelia, Stefanidis, Kostas, and Koutrika, Georgia
    In 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2021, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 15-18, 2021
  10. ICDE
    Fairness in Rankings and Recommenders: Models, Methods and Research Directions
    Pitoura, Evaggelia, Stefanidis, Kostas, and Koutrika, Georgia
    In 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2021, Chania, Greece, April 19-22, 2021

2020

  1. NLonSpark: NL to SQL translation on top of Apache Spark
  2. Special issue on "Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age"
    Atzori, Maurizio, Koutrika, Georgia, Pes, Barbara, and Tanca, Letizia
    Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
  3. EDBT
    Fairness in Rankings and Recommenders
    Pitoura, Evaggelia, Koutrika, Georgia, and Stefanidis, Kostas
    In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 02, 2020
  4. RecSys
    Recommendations as Graph Explorations
    Kyriakidi, Marialena, Koutrika, Georgia, and Ioannidis, Yannis E.
    In RecSys 2020: Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Virtual Event, Brazil, September 22-26, 2020
  5. SIGMOD
    Analysis of Database Search Systems with THOR
    Belmpas, Theofilos, Gkini, Orest, and Koutrika, Georgia
    In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD Conference 2020, online conference [Portland, OR, USA], June 14-19, 2020

2019

  1. Figuring out the User in a Few Steps: Bayesian Multifidelity Active Search with Cokriging
    Klyuchnikov, Nikita, Mottin, Davide, Koutrika, Georgia, Müller, Emmanuel, and Karras, Panagiotis
    In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, KDD 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA, August 4-8, 2019
  2. The Evolution of Search Over Structured Data: From SQL to Natural Language
    Koutrika, Georgia
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications, DATA 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 26-28, 2019