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arXiv:1904.02344 (cs)
[Submitted on 4 Apr 2019 (v1), last revised 15 Apr 2019 (this version, v2)]

Title:Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs

Authors:Qianrui Zhang, Haoci Zhang, Thibault Sellam, Eugene Wu
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Abstract:Interactive tools make data analysis more efficient and more accessible to end-users by hiding the underlying query complexity and exposing interactive widgets for the parts of the query that matter to the analysis. However, creating custom tailored (i.e., precise) interfaces is very costly, and automated approaches are desirable. We propose a syntactic approach that uses queries from an analysis to generate a tailored interface. We model interface widgets as functions I(q) -> q' that modify the current analysis query $q$, and interfaces as the set of queries that its widgets can express. Our system, Precision Interfaces, analyzes structural changes between input queries from an analysis, and generates an output interface with widgets to express those changes. Our experiments on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey query log suggest that Precision Interfaces can generate useful interfaces for simple unanticipated tasks, and our optimizations can generate interfaces from logs of up to 10,000 queries in <10s.
Subjects: Databases (cs.DB)
Cite as: arXiv:1904.02344 [cs.DB]
  (or arXiv:1904.02344v2 [cs.DB] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1904.02344

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From: Eugene Wu [view email]
[v1] Thu, 4 Apr 2019 04:40:38 UTC (2,281 KB)
[v2] Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:44:24 UTC (5,171 KB)
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