PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database Querying.

Rita Sevastjanova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-9579 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130800832 Robin Shing Moon Chan Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database Querying. 1163:1-1163:18 2026 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791265 conf/chi/2026 db/conf/chi/chi2026.html#ChanSE26

Robin Shing Moon Chan Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database Querying. 2026 March abs/2603.01795 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.01795 db/journals/corr/corr2603.html#abs-2603-01795 streams/journals/corr

Tobias Stähle Péter Ferenc Gyarmati Thilo Spinner Rita Sevastjanova Dominik Moritz Mennatallah El-Assady VACP: Visual Analytics Context Protocol. 2026 March abs/2603.29322 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.29322 db/journals/corr/corr2603.html#abs-2603-29322 streams/journals/corr

Xinyuan Yan Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Bei Wang TopoAlign: Topology-Aware Visual Representation Alignment. 2026 May abs/2605.25541 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.25541 db/journals/corr/corr2605.html#abs-2605-25541 streams/journals/corr

Rita Sevastjanova Interactive Visual Investigation of Word Embedding Contextualizations in Large Language Models. 2025 University of Konstanz, Germany https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/73831 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-zojoodl1iu4v2 https://d-nb.info/1371440921

Rita Sevastjanova Robin Gerling Thilo Spinner Mennatallah El-Assady <i>LayerFlow</i>: Layer-wise Exploration of LLM Embeddings using Uncertainty-aware Interlinked Projections. 2025 44 Comput. Graph. Forum 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70123 db/journals/cgf/cgf44.html#SevastjanovaGSE25 streams/journals/cgf

Johannes Fuchs 0001 Bastian Jäckl Michael Jüttler Daniel A. Keim Rita Sevastjanova TreEducation: A Visual Education Platform for Teaching Treemap Layout Algorithms. 4034-4049 2025 July 31 IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3393012 db/journals/tvcg/tvcg31.html#FuchsJJKS25 streams/journals/tvcg

Jiugeng Sun Rita Sevastjanova Sina Ahmadi Rico Sennrich Mennatallah El-Assady Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection. 148-158 2025 ACL (3) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-demo.15 conf/acl/2025-3 db/conf/acl/acl2025-3.html#SunSASE25 Thilo Spinner Rita Sevastjanova Rebecca Kehlbeck Tobias Stähle Daniel A. Keim Oliver Deussen Andreas Spitz Mennatallah El-Assady Revealing the Unwritten: Visual Investigation of Beam Search Trees to Address Language Model Prompting Challenges. 295-306 2025 ACL (3) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-demo.29 conf/acl/2025-3 db/conf/acl/acl2025-3.html#SpinnerSKSKDSE25 Moritz Dück Steffen Holter Robin Shing Moon Chan Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Finding Needles in Document Haystacks: Augmenting Serendipitous Claim Retrieval Workflows. 1003:1-1003:17 2025 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713715 conf/chi/2025 db/conf/chi/chi2025.html#DuckHCSE25

Rita Sevastjanova Robin Gerling Thilo Spinner Mennatallah El-Assady LayerFlow: Layer-wise Exploration of LLM Embeddings using Uncertainty-aware Interlinked Projections. 2025 April abs/2504.10504 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.10504 db/journals/corr/corr2504.html#abs-2504-10504 streams/journals/corr

Kenza Amara Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Concept-Level Explainability for Auditing & Steering LLM Responses. 2025 May abs/2505.07610 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.07610 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-07610 streams/journals/corr

Xinyuan Yan Rita Sevastjanova Sinie van der Ben Mennatallah El-Assady Bei Wang Explainable Mapper: Charting LLM Embedding Spaces Using Perturbation-Based Explanation and Verification Agents. 2025 July abs/2507.18607 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.18607 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-18607 streams/journals/corr

Francesco Sovrano Gabriele Dominici Rita Sevastjanova Alessandra Stramiglio Alberto Bacchelli Is General-Purpose AI Reasoning Sensitive to Data-Induced Cognitive Biases? Dynamic Benchmarking on Typical Software Engineering Dilemmas. 2025 August abs/2508.11278 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.11278 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-11278 streams/journals/corr

Jiugeng Sun Rita Sevastjanova Sina Ahmadi Rico Sennrich Mennatallah El-Assady Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection. 2025 September abs/2509.26210 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.26210 db/journals/corr/corr2509.html#abs-2509-26210 streams/journals/corr

Tobias Stähle Matthijs Jansen op de Haar Sophia Boyer Rita Sevastjanova Arpit Narechania Mennatallah El-Assady A Design Space for Intelligent Agents in Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics. 2025 December abs/2512.23372 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.23372 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-23372 streams/journals/corr

Marieke Einfeldt Rita Sevastjanova Katharina Zahner-Ritter Ekaterina Kazak Bettina Braun The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling in perception experiments. 101537 2024 January 83 Comput. Speech Lang. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2023.101537 db/journals/csl/csl83.html#EinfeldtSZKB24

Thilo Spinner Rebecca Kehlbeck Rita Sevastjanova Tobias Stähle Daniel A. Keim Oliver Deussen Mennatallah El-Assady -generAItor: Tree-in-the-loop Text Generation for Language Model Explainability and Adaptation. 14 2024 June 14 ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3652028 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130800836 db/journals/tiis/tiis14.html#SpinnerKSSKDE24 streams/journals/tiis

Rita Sevastjanova Hanna Hauptmann Sebastian Deterding Mennatallah El-Assady Personalized Language Model Selection Through Gamified Elicitation of Contrastive Concept Preferences. 5449-5465 2024 August 30 IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3296905 db/journals/tvcg/tvcg30.html#SevastjanovaHDE24

Kenza Amara Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady SyntaxShap: Syntax-aware Explainability Method for Text Generation. 4551-4566 2024 ACL (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.270 https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.270 conf/acl/2024f db/conf/acl/acl2024f.html#AmaraSE24 Raphael Buchmüller Mark-Matthias Zymla Daniel A. Keim Miriam Butt Rita Sevastjanova Exploration of Preference Models using Visual Analytics. 2024 MLVis@EuroVis https://doi.org/10.2312/mlvis.20241127 conf/mlvis-ws/2024 db/conf/mlvis-ws/mlvis-ws2024.html#BuchmullerZKBS24 Olga Ovcharenko Rita Sevastjanova Valentina Boeva Feature Clock: High-Dimensional Effects in Two-Dimensional Plots. 151-155 2024 IEEE VIS https://doi.org/10.1109/VIS55277.2024.00038 conf/visualization/2024 db/conf/visualization/visualization2024.html#OvcharenkoSB24 Kenza Amara Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Challenges and Opportunities in Text Generation Explainability. 244-264 2024 xAI (1) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63787-2_13 conf/xai/2024-1 db/conf/xai/xai2024-1.html#AmaraSE24

Kenza Amara Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady SyntaxShap: Syntax-aware Explainability Method for Text Generation. 2024 abs/2402.09259 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.09259 db/journals/corr/corr2402.html#abs-2402-09259

Thilo Spinner Rebecca Kehlbeck Rita Sevastjanova Tobias Stähle Daniel A. Keim Oliver Deussen Mennatallah El-Assady generAItor: Tree-in-the-Loop Text Generation for Language Model Explainability and Adaptation. 2024 abs/2403.07627 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.07627 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-07627

Kenza Amara Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Challenges and Opportunities in Text Generation Explainability. 2024 abs/2405.08468 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.08468 db/journals/corr/corr2405.html#abs-2405-08468

Olga Ovcharenko Rita Sevastjanova Valentina Boeva Feature Clock: High-Dimensional Effects in Two-Dimensional Plots. 2024 abs/2408.01294 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.01294 db/journals/corr/corr2408.html#abs-2408-01294 streams/journals/corr

Sanne van der Linden Rita Sevastjanova Mathias Funk Mennatallah El-Assady <i>MediCoSpace</i>: Visual Decision-Support for Doctor-Patient Consultations using Medical Concept Spaces from EHRs. 15:1-15:20 2023 June 14 ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3564275 db/journals/tmis/tmis14.html#LindenSFE23

Rita Sevastjanova Eren Cakmak Shauli Ravfogel Ryan Cotterell Mennatallah El-Assady Visual Comparison of Language Model Adaptation. 1178-1188 2023 29 IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209458 db/journals/tvcg/tvcg29.html#SevastjanovaCRC23

Thilo Spinner Rebecca Kehlbeck Rita Sevastjanova Tobias Stähle Daniel A. Keim Oliver Deussen Andreas Spitz Mennatallah El-Assady Revealing the Unwritten: Visual Investigation of Beam Search Trees to Address Language Model Prompting Challenges. 2023 abs/2310.11252 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.11252 db/journals/corr/corr2310.html#abs-2310-11252

Rita Sevastjanova Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Christin Beck Hanna Hauptmann Mennatallah El-Assady LMFingerprints: Visual Explanations of Language Model Embedding Spaces through Layerwise Contextualization Scores. 295-307 2022 41 Comput. Graph. Forum 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14541 db/journals/cgf/cgf41.html#SevastjanovaKBH22

Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Adam Bradley Christopher Collins 0001 Miriam Butt Daniel A. Keim VisInReport: Complementing Visual Discourse Analytics Through Personalized Insight Reports. 4757-4769 2022 28 IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3104026 db/journals/tvcg/tvcg28.html#SevastjanovaEBC22

Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Rita Sevastjanova Christin Beck Maribel Romero Negation, Coordination, and Quantifiers in Contextualized Language Models. 3074-3085 2022 COLING https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.272 conf/coling/2022 db/conf/coling/coling2022.html#KalouliSBR22

Rita Sevastjanova Mennatallah El-Assady Beware the Rationalization Trap! When Language Model Explainability Diverges from our Mental Models of Language. 2022 abs/2207.06897 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.06897 db/journals/corr/corr2207.html#abs-2207-06897

Rita Sevastjanova Eren Cakmak Shauli Ravfogel Ryan Cotterell Mennatallah El-Assady Visual Comparison of Language Model Adaptation. 2022 abs/2208.08176 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.08176 db/journals/corr/corr2208.html#abs-2208-08176

Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Rita Sevastjanova Christin Beck Maribel Romero Negation, Coordination, and Quantifiers in Contextualized Language Models. 2022 abs/2209.07836 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.07836 db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-07836

Maximilian T. Fischer Daniel Seebacher Rita Sevastjanova Daniel A. Keim Mennatallah El-Assady CommAID: Visual Analytics for Communication Analysis through Interactive Dynamics Modeling. 25-36 2021 40 Comput. Graph. Forum 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14286 db/journals/cgf/cgf40.html#FischerSSKE21

Rita Sevastjanova Wolfgang Jentner Fabian Sperrle Rebecca Kehlbeck Jürgen Bernard Mennatallah El-Assady QuestionComb: A Gamification Approach for the Visual Explanation of Linguistic Phenomena through Interactive Labeling. 19:1-19:38 2021 11 ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3429448 db/journals/tiis/tiis11.html#SevastjanovaJSK21

Rita Sevastjanova Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Christin Beck Hanna Schäfer Mennatallah El-Assady Explaining Contextualization in Language Models using Visual Analytics. 464-476 2021 ACL/IJCNLP (1) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.39 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.39 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131458539 conf/acl/2021-1 db/conf/acl/acl2021-1.html#SevastjanovaKBS20 Thilo Spinner Udo Schlegel Martin Schall Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Beatrice Gobbo Julius Rauscher Mennatallah El-Assady Daniel A. Keim Speculative Execution of Similarity Queries: Real-Time Parameter Optimization through Visual Exploration. 2021 EDBT/ICDT Workshops https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2841/SIMPLIFY_4.pdf conf/edbt/2021w db/conf/edbt/edbt2021w.html#SpinnerSSSSGREK21 Marieke Einfeldt Rita Sevastjanova Katharina Zahner-Ritter Ekaterina Kazak Bettina Braun Reliable Estimates of Interpretable Cue Effects with Active Learning in Psycholinguistic Research. 1743-1747 2021 Interspeech https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1524 conf/interspeech/2021 db/conf/interspeech/interspeech2021.html#EinfeldtSZKB21

Daniel Seebacher Maximilian T. Fischer Rita Sevastjanova Daniel A. Keim Mennatallah El-Assady Visual Analytics of Conversational Dynamics. 2021 abs/2105.04897 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04897 db/journals/corr/corr2105.html#abs-2105-04897

Maximilian T. Fischer Daniel Seebacher Rita Sevastjanova Daniel A. Keim Mennatallah El-Assady CommAID: Visual Analytics for Communication Analysis through Interactive Dynamics Modeling. 2021 abs/2106.06334 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06334 db/journals/corr/corr2106.html#abs-2106-06334

Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Rita Sevastjanova Valeria de Paiva Richard S. Crouch Mennatallah El-Assady XplaiNLI: Explainable Natural Language Inference through Visual Analytics. 48-52 2020 COLING (Demonstrations) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-demos.9 https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-demos.9/ conf/coling/2020d db/conf/coling/coling2020d.html#KalouliSPCE20 Mennatallah El-Assady Wolfgang Jentner Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Annette Hautli-Janisz Miriam Butt Daniel A. Keim lingvis.io - A Linguistic Visual Analytics Framework. 13-18 2019 ACL (3) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p19-3003 https://aclanthology.org/P19-3003/ conf/acl/2019-3 db/conf/acl/acl2019-3.html#El-AssadyJSSHBK19 Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Rebecca Kehlbeck Rita Sevastjanova Katharina Kaiser Georg A. Kaiser Miriam Butt ParHistVis: Visualization of Parallel Multilingual Historical Data. 109-114 2019 LChange@ACL https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4714 conf/acl-lchange/2019 db/conf/acl-lchange/acl-lchange2019.html#KalouliKSKKB19 Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Rebecca Kehlbeck Mennatallah El-Assady VIANA: Visual Interactive Annotation of Argumentation. 11-22 2019 VAST https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST47406.2019.8986917 conf/ieeevast/2019 db/conf/ieeevast/ieeevast2019.html#SperrleSKE19 Wolfgang Jentner Juri Buchmüller Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Thilo Spinner Udo Schlegel Dirk Streeb Hanna Schäfer N.E.A.T. - Novel Emergency Analysis Tool. 104-105 2019 VAST https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST47406.2019.8986900 conf/ieeevast/2019 db/conf/ieeevast/ieeevast2019.html#JentnerBSSSSSS19 Daniel Seebacher Maximilian T. Fischer Rita Sevastjanova Daniel A. Keim Mennatallah El-Assady Visual Analytics of Conversational Dynamics. 83-87 2019 EuroVA@EuroVis https://doi.org/10.2312/eurova.20191130 conf/vissym/2019va db/conf/vissym/va2019.html#SeebacherFSKE19

Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Rebecca Kehlbeck Mennatallah El-Assady VIANA: Visual Interactive Annotation of Argumentation. 2019 abs/1907.12413 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12413 db/journals/corr/corr1907.html#abs-1907-12413

Mennatallah El-Assady Rita Sevastjanova Daniel A. Keim Christopher Collins 0001 ThreadReconstructor: Modeling Reply-Chains to Untangle Conversational Text through Visual Analytics. 351-365 2018 37 Comput. Graph. Forum 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13425 db/journals/cgf/cgf37.html#El-AssadySKC18

Mennatallah El-Assady Rita Sevastjanova Fabian Sperrle Daniel A. Keim Christopher Collins 0001 Progressive Learning of Topic Modeling Parameters: A Visual Analytics Framework. 382-391 2018 24 IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2745080 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2745080 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47702761 db/journals/tvcg/tvcg24.html#El-AssadySSKC18

Mennatallah El-Assady Fabian Sperrle Rita Sevastjanova Michael Sedlmair Daniel A. Keim LTMA: Layered Topic Matching for the Comparative Exploration, Evaluation, and Refinement of Topic Modeling Results. 1-10 2018 BDVA https://doi.org/10.1109/BDVA.2018.8534018 conf/bdva/2018 db/conf/bdva/bdva2018.html#El-AssadySSSK18

Mennatallah El-Assady Rita Sevastjanova Bela Gipp Daniel A. Keim Christopher Collins 0001 NEREx: Named-Entity Relationship Exploration in Multi-Party Conversations. 213-225 2017 36 Comput. Graph. Forum 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13181 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59562678 db/journals/cgf/cgf36.html#El-AssadySGKC17

Sina Ahmadi Kenza Amara Alberto Bacchelli Christin Beck Sinie van der Ben Jürgen Bernard Valentina Boeva Sophia Boyer Adam Bradley Bettina Braun Juri Buchmüller Raphael Buchmüller Miriam Butt Eren Cakmak Robin Shing Moon Chan Christopher Collins 0001 Ryan Cotterell Richard S. Crouch Sebastian Deterding Oliver Deussen Gabriele Dominici Moritz Dück Marieke Einfeldt Mennatallah El-Assady Maximilian T. Fischer Johannes Fuchs 0001 Mathias Funk Robin Gerling Bela Gipp Beatrice Gobbo Péter Ferenc Gyarmati Matthijs Jansen op de Haar Hanna HauptmannHanna Schäfer Annette Hautli-Janisz Steffen Holter Bastian Jäckl Wolfgang Jentner Michael Jüttler Georg A. Kaiser Katharina Kaiser Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli Ekaterina Kazak Rebecca Kehlbeck Daniel A. Keim Sanne van der Linden Dominik Moritz Arpit Narechania Olga Ovcharenko Valeria de Paiva Julius Rauscher Shauli Ravfogel Maribel Romero Martin Schall Udo Schlegel Michael Sedlmair Daniel Seebacher Rico Sennrich Francesco Sovrano Fabian Sperrle Thilo Spinner Andreas Spitz Tobias Stähle Alessandra Stramiglio Dirk Streeb Jiugeng Sun Bei Wang Xinyuan Yan Katharina Zahner-Ritter Mark-Matthias Zymla