This book is to be published by Springer Nature in fall 2023.

Meanwhile, we are sharing the pre-print, non-final version of individual chapters for early feedback and comments. If you notice any issues in the book or have any questions or suggestion, please do so by openning an github issue, so that we have everything in one place. Thanks in advance! 🌻

For updates about new versions, follow us on Twitter: Yunyao and Davood.

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Table of Content

Last draft date: July 31, 2023

• Foreword (link)
• Preface (link)
• Chapter 1. Overview (draft)
• Chapter 2. Building an NLIDB: The Basics (draft)
• Chapter 3. Data and Query Model (draft)
• Chapter 4. Text to Data (draft)
• Chapter 5. Evaluation (draft)
• Chapter 6. Data to Text (draft)
• Chapter 7. Interactivity (draft)
• Bibliography (draft)

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Citation

Yunyao Li, Dragomir R. Radev and Davood Rafiei. Natural Language Interfaces to Databases. Springer Nature. 2023

@book{nlidb-book,
    author = {Yunyao Li and Dragomir R. Radev and Davood Rafiei},
    title = {Natural Language Interfaces to Databases},
    publisher = {Springer Nature},
    year = {2023},
    note = {Pre-print, non-final version},
    url = {https://nlidb.github.io/book/}
}

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Code accompanying the book

Coming soon.

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Lecture Slides

Coming soon.

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Acknowledgement

This book would not be possible without the help and support of many people. In particular, we would like to thank the following people for helping with this book:

• People who have provided feedback on an earlier draft of the book: H.V. Jagadish and an anonymous reviewer
• People who have helped with feedback / input on part of the book: Lorenzo Flores, Doris Lee, Aditya Parameswaran and Tao Yu

Complete list of acknowledgement

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Author Websites

• Yunyao Li
• Dragomir R. Radev (Memorial website)
• Davood Rafiei