{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4389337815","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","title":"Assessing the utility of text-to-SQL approaches for satisfying software developer information needs","display_name":"Assessing the utility of text-to-SQL approaches for satisfying software developer information needs","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-12-05","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4389337815","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S109852484","display_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","issn_l":"1382-3256","issn":["1382-3256","1573-7616"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"hybrid","oa_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5026656004","display_name":"Mihaela Todorova Tomova","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-7239"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I119449181","display_name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau","ror":"https://ror.org/01weqhp73","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Mihaela Tomova","raw_affiliation_strings":["Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-7239","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5008336815","display_name":"Martin Hofmann","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4440-3317"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I119449181","display_name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau","ror":"https://ror.org/01weqhp73","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Martin Hofmann","raw_affiliation_strings":["Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5025586457","display_name":"Constantin H\u00fctterer","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I119449181","display_name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau","ror":"https://ror.org/01weqhp73","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Constantin H\u00fctterer","raw_affiliation_strings":["Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5063243817","display_name":"Patrick M\u00e4der","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-2707"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I119449181","display_name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau","ror":"https://ror.org/01weqhp73","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I76198965","display_name":"Friedrich Schiller University Jena","ror":"https://ror.org/05qpz1x62","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I76198965"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Patrick M\u00e4der","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 07745, Germany","Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 07745, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I76198965"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":4,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5026656004"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I119449181"],"apc_list":{"value":2290,"currency":"EUR","value_usd":2890},"apc_paid":{"value":2290,"currency":"EUR","value_usd":2890},"fwci":1.3453,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":3,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.86108436,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":90,"max":96},"biblio":{"volume":"29","issue":"1","first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12016","display_name":"Web Data Mining and Analysis","score":0.996999979019165,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11719","display_name":"Data Quality and Management","score":0.9962000250816345,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1803","display_name":"Management Science and Operations Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8524346351623535},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/sql","display_name":"SQL","score":0.7465834617614746},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/query-by-example","display_name":"Query by Example","score":0.5129194259643555},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/language-integrated-query","display_name":"Language Integrated Query","score":0.4484902024269104},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/sql/psm","display_name":"SQL/PSM","score":0.44739875197410583},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/domain","display_name":"Domain (mathematical analysis)","score":0.4225974977016449},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-retrieval","display_name":"Information retrieval","score":0.40131038427352905},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/database","display_name":"Database","score":0.387515127658844},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/web-search-query","display_name":"Web search query","score":0.16271016001701355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/search-engine","display_name":"Search engine","score":0.12941443920135498}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8524346351623535},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C510870499","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47607","display_name":"SQL","level":2,"score":0.7465834617614746},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C194222762","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114486","display_name":"Query by Example","level":4,"score":0.5129194259643555},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C179531526","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595637","display_name":"Language Integrated Query","level":5,"score":0.4484902024269104},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C167544706","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360842","display_name":"SQL/PSM","level":5,"score":0.44739875197410583},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36503486","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11235244","display_name":"Domain (mathematical analysis)","level":2,"score":0.4225974977016449},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C23123220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816826","display_name":"Information retrieval","level":1,"score":0.40131038427352905},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77088390","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8513","display_name":"Database","level":1,"score":0.387515127658844},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C164120249","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q995982","display_name":"Web search query","level":3,"score":0.16271016001701355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C97854310","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19541","display_name":"Search engine","level":2,"score":0.12941443920135498},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134306372","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754","display_name":"Mathematical analysis","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S109852484","display_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","issn_l":"1382-3256","issn":["1382-3256","1573-7616"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:www.db-thueringen.de:dbt_mods_00062305","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00062305","pdf_url":"https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00064654/1573-7616_29_2024_15.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400120","display_name":"Common Library Network (Der Gemeinsame Bibliotheksverbund)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210149878","host_organization_name":"Verbundzentrale des GBV","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210149878"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10664-023-10374-z.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S109852484","display_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","issn_l":"1382-3256","issn":["1382-3256","1573-7616"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Empirical Software Engineering","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.75,"display_name":"Quality Education","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/4"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7252533825","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"MA 5030/3-1","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320320879","funder_display_name":"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8750559802","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"16DHB4009","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321114","funder_display_name":"Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Bildung und Forschung"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320320879","display_name":"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","ror":"https://ror.org/018mejw64"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321114","display_name":"Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Bildung und Forschung","ror":"https://ror.org/04pz7b180"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4389337815.pdf"},"referenced_works_count":42,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1979263599","https://openalex.org/W2013915010","https://openalex.org/W2027241772","https://openalex.org/W2044009024","https://openalex.org/W2060756319","https://openalex.org/W2061141062","https://openalex.org/W2064675550","https://openalex.org/W2073456972","https://openalex.org/W2090908431","https://openalex.org/W2100894766","https://openalex.org/W2110307645","https://openalex.org/W2116255095","https://openalex.org/W2131774270","https://openalex.org/W2160610963","https://openalex.org/W2160715838","https://openalex.org/W2163004671","https://openalex.org/W2185907055","https://openalex.org/W2250539671","https://openalex.org/W2760307268","https://openalex.org/W2767543741","https://openalex.org/W2890431379","https://openalex.org/W2945102109","https://openalex.org/W2945826489","https://openalex.org/W2946354830","https://openalex.org/W2954411385","https://openalex.org/W2962713807","https://openalex.org/W2963250244","https://openalex.org/W2963617989","https://openalex.org/W2963925437","https://openalex.org/W2964064835","https://openalex.org/W3034835156","https://openalex.org/W3044645765","https://openalex.org/W3098348021","https://openalex.org/W3137523908","https://openalex.org/W3146268108","https://openalex.org/W3170656151","https://openalex.org/W3173274550","https://openalex.org/W3214600982","https://openalex.org/W4210451781","https://openalex.org/W4224921897","https://openalex.org/W4284665614","https://openalex.org/W4321062073"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4245299004","https://openalex.org/W2047116498","https://openalex.org/W1980548249","https://openalex.org/W2348171219","https://openalex.org/W4386768611","https://openalex.org/W2614112517","https://openalex.org/W2912795851","https://openalex.org/W2340883001","https://openalex.org/W4316658535","https://openalex.org/W2486394024"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"Software":[1],"analytics":[2],"integrated":[3],"with":[4],"complex":[5,40],"databases":[6,41],"can":[7],"deliver":[8],"project":[9],"intelligence":[10],"into":[11],"the":[12,43,48,52,71,86,115,121,148,174,178],"hands":[13],"of":[14,39,75,88,157,173],"software":[15,89],"engineering":[16],"(SE)":[17],"experts":[18],"for":[19,37,91,203,228],"satisfying":[20,92,137,190],"their":[21,58,93,138,191,208],"information":[22,36,94,139,192,230],"needs.":[23,95,231],"A":[24],"new":[25],"and":[26,73,99,109,120,141,215],"promising":[27],"machine":[28],"learning":[29],"technique":[30],"known":[31],"as":[32,60,103,105],"text-to-SQL":[33,76,107,145,205,221],"automatically":[34],"extracts":[35],"users":[38],"without":[42],"need":[44],"to":[45],"fully":[46],"understand":[47],"database":[49],"structure":[50],"nor":[51],"accompanying":[53],"query":[54,160],"language.":[55],"Users":[56],"pose":[57],"request":[59],"so-called":[61],"natural":[62],"language":[63],"utterance,":[64],"i.e.,":[65],"question.":[66],"Our":[67],"goal":[68],"was":[69],"evaluating":[70],"performance":[72],"applicability":[74],"approaches":[77,108,206,222],"on":[78,165],"data":[79],"derived":[80],"from":[81],"tools":[82],"typically":[83],"used":[84],"in":[85,136,159,189,207,225],"workflow":[87],"engineers":[90],"We":[96,217],"carefully":[97],"selected":[98],"discussed":[100],"five":[101],"seminal":[102],"well":[104],"state-of-the-art":[106,220],"conducted":[110],"a":[111,130,154],"comparative":[112],"assessment":[113],"using":[114],"large-scale,":[116],"cross-domain":[117],"Spider":[118],"dataset":[119],"SE":[122,133,166,184,199,226],"domain-specific":[123],"SEOSS-Queries":[124],"dataset.":[125],"Furthermore,":[126,198],"we":[127,152,181],"study":[128],"via":[129,195],"survey":[131],"how":[132,142],"professionals":[134,185,200],"perform":[135],"needs":[140,193],"they":[143],"perceive":[144],"approaches.":[146],"For":[147],"best":[149],"performing":[150],"approach,":[151],"observe":[153,182],"high":[155],"accuracy":[156,169],"94%":[158],"prediction":[161],"when":[162],"training":[163],"specifically":[164],"data.":[167],"This":[168],"is":[170],"almost":[171],"independent":[172],"query\u2019s":[175],"complexity.":[176],"At":[177],"same":[179],"time,":[180],"that":[183,219],"have":[186],"substantial":[187],"deficits":[188],"directly":[194],"SQL":[196],"queries.":[197],"are":[201,223],"open":[202],"utilizing":[204],"daily":[209],"work,":[210],"considering":[211],"them":[212],"less":[213],"time-consuming":[214],"helpful.":[216],"conclude":[218],"applicable":[224],"practice":[227],"day-to-day":[229]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2025-12-22T23:10:17.713674","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}