An Interactive Approach to Generating SQL Queries from Natural Language

In this thesis, we contribute nalini, an natural-language based interactive interface for SQL query generation. Motivated by a lack of usability of existing systems, nalini was built with the intention of using it for complex query generation. The interface allows users to use a natural language and mathematical operations with a minimal structure. We evaluated nalini with a first-use study with five participants, where participants were asked to generate queries from the TPC-H decision support benchmark. Our study showed that users were able to use nalini to generate complex queries, and points to promising areas of future work.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Durvasula, Ramya

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Solar-Lezama, Armando

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143192

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/143192