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This paper describes DBPal, a new system to translate natural language utterances into SQL statements using a neural machine translation model. While other recent approaches use neural machine translation to implement a Natural Language…

We proposed Neural Enquirer as a neural network architecture to execute a natural language (NL) query on a knowledge-base (KB) for answers. Basically, Neural Enquirer finds the distributed representation of a query and then executes it on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Pengcheng Yin , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Ben Kao

In this paper we present first results from a comparative study. Its aim is to test the feasibility of different inductive learning techniques to perform the automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge within a natural language database…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Werner Winiwarter , Yahiko Kambayashi

Natural interface to database (NLIDB) has been researched a lot during the past decades. In the core of NLIDB, is a semantic parser used to convert natural language into SQL. Solutions from traditional NLP methodology focuses on grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ruiyang Xu , Ayush Singh

The ability to extract insights from new data sets is critical for decision making. Visual interactive tools play an important role in data exploration since they provide non-technical users with an effective way to visually compose queries…

Natural language is hypothetically the best user interface for many domains. However, general models that provide an interface between natural language and any other domain still do not exist. Providing natural language interface to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Jovan Kalajdjieski , Martina Toshevska , Frosina Stojanovska

Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are powerful because they are able to optimize and answer queries against any relational database. A natural language interface (NLI) for a database, on the other hand, is tailored to support…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Wenlu Wang , Yingtao Tian , Hongyu Xiong , Haixun Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku

Tackling the information retrieval gap between non-technical database end-users and those with the knowledge of formal query languages has been an interesting area of data management and analytics research. The use of natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chantal Montgomery , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

Advances in natural language processing tasks have gained momentum in recent years due to the increasingly popular neural network methods. In this paper, we explore deep learning techniques for answering multi-step reasoning questions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Till Haug , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Paulina Grnarova

We present an approach to rapidly and easily build natural language interfaces to databases for new domains, whose performance improves over time based on user feedback, and requires minimal intervention. To achieve this, we adapt neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Srinivasan Iyer , Ioannis Konstas , Alvin Cheung , Jayant Krishnamurthy , Luke Zettlemoyer

Progress in natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) has been slow mainly due to linguistic issues (such as language ambiguity) and domain portability. Moreover, the lack of a large corpus to be used as a standard benchmark has made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Florin Brad , Radu Iacob , Ionel Hosu , Traian Rebedea

Neural semantic parsing has achieved impressive results in recent years, yet its success relies on the availability of large amounts of supervised data. Our goal is to learn a neural semantic parser when only prior knowledge about a limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Yeyun Gong , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Daxin Jiang

With the future striving toward data-centric decision-making, seamless access to databases is of utmost importance. There is extensive research on creating an efficient text-to-sql (TEXT2SQL) model to access data from the database. Using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ayush Kumar , Parth Nagarkar , Prabhav Nalhe , Sanjeev Vijayakumar

As the demand for querying databases in all areas of life continues to grow, researchers have devoted significant attention to the natural language interface for databases (NLIDB). This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mengyi Liu , Jianqiu Xu

A Natural Language Interface (NLI) facilitates users to pose queries to retrieve information from a database without using any artificial language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL). Several applications in various domains…

Most of the world's data is stored in relational databases. Accessing these requires specialized knowledge of the Structured Query Language (SQL), putting them out of the reach of many people. A recent research thread in Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Bojan Petrovski , Ignacio Aguado , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl , Claudiu Musat

Over the last few years natural language interfaces (NLI) for databases have gained significant traction both in academia and industry. These systems use very different approaches as described in recent survey papers. However, these systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Katrin Affolter , Kurt Stockinger , Abraham Bernstein

Natural Language Interfaces for Databases (NLIDBs) aim to make database querying accessible by allowing users to ask questions in everyday language rather than using formal SQL queries. Despite significant advancements in translation…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Panos Ipeirotis , Haotian Zheng

Our goal is to create a convenient natural language interface for performing well-specified but complex actions such as analyzing data, manipulating text, and querying databases. However, existing natural language interfaces for such tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sida I. Wang , Samuel Ginn , Percy Liang , Christoper D. Manning

Machine translation is going through a radical revolution, driven by the explosive development of deep learning techniques using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). In this paper, we consider a special…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruichu Cai , Boyan Xu , Xiaoyan Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zijian Li , Zhihao Liang
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