VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Akifhan Karakayali
dblp:283/4437
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
2 papers |
Data models and query languages · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Information extraction and text analysis · 49% Deep learning architectures and training · 29% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 22% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data models and query languages › natural language interface
natural language interface to database |
1.3 | 2 | 2024 | xDBTagger: explainable natural language interface to databases using keyword mappings and schema graph · VLDB J. 2024 DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2021 |
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis
sequence labeling |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2021 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › recurrent neural network
bidirectional recurrent network |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2021 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
recurrent neural network |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
schema graph · 1.5keyword mapping · 1.5multi-task learning · 1.0POS tagging · 1.0bidirectional recurrent neural networks · 0.5bidirectional recurrent neural network · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | xDBTagger: explainable natural language interface to databases using keyword mappings and schema graph
Arif Usta, Akifhan Karakayali, Özgür Ulusoy |
VLDB J. | 2 |
| 2021 | DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural NetworksabstractTranslating Natural Language Queries (NLQs) to Structured Query Language (SQL) in interfaces deployed in relational databases is a challenging task, which has been widely studied in database community recently. Conventional rule based systems utilize series of solutions as a pipeline to deal with each step of this task, namely stop word filtering, tokenization, stemming/lemmatization, parsing, tagging, and translation. Recent works have mostly focused on the translation step overlooking the earlier steps by using adhoc solutions. In the pipeline, one of the most critical and challenging problems is keyword mapping; constructing a mapping between tokens in the query and relational database elements (tables, attributes, values, etc.). We define the keyword mapping problem as a sequence tagging problem, and propose a novel deep learning based supervised approach that utilizes POS tags of NLQs. Our proposed approach, called DBTagger (DataBase Tagger), is an end-to-end and schema independent solution, which makes it practical for various relational databases. We evaluate our approach on eight different datasets, and report new state-of-the-art accuracy results, 92.4% on the average. Our results also indicate that DBTagger is faster than its counterparts up to 10000 times and scalable for bigger databases. Arif Usta, Akifhan Karakayali, Özgür Ulusoy |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 2 |