News

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!