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Nov 18, 2025 🎉 📖 Our book on NL Interfaces for Databases with Deep Learning is now available by Springer! 📖 🎉
Oct 20, 2025 Our paper “Query-Driven Data Exploration with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects” has been accepted at ICDE’26!
May 23, 2025 Our paper “In-depth Analysis of LLM-based Schema Linking” has been accepted at EDBT’26!
Mar 15, 2025 Our demo “DataDazzle: Intelligent Data Exploration through Natural Language” has been accepted for presentation at the SIGMOD ‘25 conference! More details to follow. See you in Berlin!
Mar 14, 2025 Our member Christos Tsapelas has been accepted to be part of the VLDB 2026 Shadow PC!
Feb 20, 2025 Our member’s Christos Tsapelas , PhD Proposal “Towards a Neural Database Execution Engine” has been accepted at EDBT/ICDT 2025 PhD Workshop!
Dec 1, 2024 Our members Anna Mitsopoulou and Christos Tsapelas have been accepted to ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms as PhD fellows
Nov 23, 2024 We are excited to announce that we are organizing the Database Programming Contest 2024 sponsored by Huawei!
Check how to participate on https://databasecontest2024.athenarc.gr/
Nov 18, 2024 We proudly support the Bebras Challenge in Greece!
Jun 19, 2024 Our paper “Analysis of Text-to-SQL Benchmarks: Limitations, Challenges and Opportunities” has been accepted at EDBT/ICDT 2025!
Mar 25, 2024 We are over the moon to share that our latest work, “Optimizing Neighborhoods for Fair Top-N Recommendation”, has been accepted at UMAP’24 held in Sardinia, Italy! It is time to pack the sunscreen and grab those sunglasses—we are bringing fairness in recommenders to the beach 🏖️
Mar 10, 2024 We are thrilled to announce that our research paper, “Guided SQL-based Data Exploration with User Feedback”, has been accepted at ICDE’24!
Nov 23, 2023 Ismini Bouliari just defended her master thesis, “Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems: A Hybrid Approach with KoalaRec”. Time to pop the champagne and celebrate🍾🎉
Nov 20, 2023 ScienceBenchmark has been accepted at VLDB’24! This is a joint work with ZHAW on Text-to-SQL benchmarking and data augmentation for complex scientific DBs.
Sep 29, 2023 Our paper “QPSeeker: An Efficient Neural Planner Combining Both Data and Queries through Variational Inference” has been accepted at EDBT/ICDT 2024!
May 25, 2023 Our tutorial titled “Natural Language Interfaces for Databases with Deep Learning” has been accepted at VLDB’23!
Apr 11, 2023 Congratulations to George Katsogiannis for successfully defending his MSc thesis on “SQL Translation from and to Natural Language”!
Mar 28, 2023 We presented a vision paper on NL Data Interfaces at the BigVis Workshop, held in conjunction with EDBT/ICDT 2023.
Mar 6, 2023 Congratulations to our group’s leader, Georgia Koutrika, on winning the EDBT 2023 Test of Time Award for HIL: a high-level scripting language for entity integration!
Jan 23, 2023 Our paper titled “A Survey on Deep Learning Approaches for Text-to-SQL” has been published at the VLDB Journal!
Nov 9, 2022 Congratulations to our lab members Stavroula Eleftherakis and Antonis Mandamadiotis on starting their PhDs!
Nov 7, 2022 Our tutorial, titled “Data Democratisation with Deep Learning: The Anatomy of a Natural Language Data Interface”, has been accepted at WSDM’23!
Jun 6, 2022 Congratulations to Christos Tsapelas for his participation to Archimedes Summer Program 2022
May 23, 2022 Our work has been accepted at the 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing, where we will be presenting 4 posters!
Feb 24, 2022 The 1st Greek ACM-W Chapter Winter School on Fairness in AI, co-organized by DARE Lab, starts today!
Jan 12, 2022 Our tutorial on deep learning text-to-SQL systems has been accepted at TWC ‘22!
Dec 24, 2021 Welcome to our new website!