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This paper presents a new technique for automatically synthesizing SQL queries from natural language. Our technique is fully automated, works for any database without requiring additional customization, and does not require users to know…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Navid Yaghmazadeh , Yuepeng Wang , Isil Dillig , Thomas Dillig

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) has emerged as a critical task for enabling seamless interaction with databases. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in this domain. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Weibin Liao , Xin Gao , Tianyu Jia , Rihong Qiu , Yifan Zhu , Yang Lin , Xu Chu , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

Text-to-SQL (Text2SQL) aims to map natural language questions to executable SQL queries. Although large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress, current approaches struggle with poor transferability to open-source LLMs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Shuai Lyu , Haoran Luo , Ripeng Li , Zhonghong Ou , Jiangfeng Sun , Yang Qin , Xiaoran Shang , Meina Song , Yifan Zhu

This paper presents an open source methodology for allowing users to query structured non textual datasets through natural language Unlike Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG which struggles with numerical and highly structured information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hontan Valentin-Micu , Bunea Andrei-Alexandru , Tantaroudas Nikolaos Dimitrios , Popovici Dan-Matei

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated significant promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Text2SQL LLMs, especially with advanced algorithms such as GRPO and DAPO. However, the performance of these methods is highly…

Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language to logic form. In question answering, semantic parsing can be used to map the question to logic form and execute the logic form to get the answer. One key problem for semantic parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Learning a natural language interface for database tables is a challenging task that involves deep language understanding and multi-step reasoning. The task is often approached by mapping natural language queries to logical forms or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Arvind Neelakantan , Quoc V. Le , Martin Abadi , Andrew McCallum , Dario Amodei

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

The Natural Language Interface to Databases (NLIDB) empowers non-technical users with database access through intuitive natural language (NL) interactions. Advanced approaches, utilizing neural sequence-to-sequence models or large-scale…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuankai Fan , Zhenying He , Tonghui Ren , Can Huang , Yinan Jing , Kai Zhang , X. Sean Wang

We present a simple way to do the task of text-to-SQL problem with weak supervision. We call it Rule-SQL. Given the question and the answer from the database table without the SQL logic form, Rule-SQL use the rules based on table column…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Converting text into the structured query language (Text2SQL) is a research hotspot in the field of natural language processing (NLP), which has broad application prospects. In the era of big data, the use of databases has penetrated all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ran Shen , Gang Sun , Hao Shen , Yiling Li , Liangfeng Jin , Han Jiang

Data augmentation has attracted a lot of research attention in the deep learning era for its ability in alleviating data sparseness. The lack of labeled data for unseen evaluation databases is exactly the major challenge for cross-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun Wu , Lijie Wang , Zhenghua Li , Ao Zhang , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Min Zhang , Haifeng Wang

To elevate the foundational capabilities and generalization prowess of the text-to-SQL model in real-world applications, we integrate model interpretability analysis with execution-guided strategy for semantic parsing of WHERE clauses in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Cong Zhang

Knowledge graphs use nodes, relationships, and properties to represent arbitrarily complex data. When stored in a graph database, the Cypher query language enables efficient modeling and querying of knowledge graphs. However, using Cypher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy , Leila Messallem , Jon Besga , Gianandrea Minneci

While sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models achieve state-of-the-art performance in many natural language processing tasks, they can be too slow for real-time applications. One performance bottleneck is predicting the most likely next token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Chunyang Xiao , Christoph Teichmann , Konstantine Arkoudas

Context-dependent text-to-SQL is the task of translating multi-turn questions into database-related SQL queries. Existing methods typically focus on making full use of history context or previously predicted SQL for currently SQL parsing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dongling Xiao , Linzheng Chai , Qian-Wen Zhang , Zhao Yan , Zhoujun Li , Yunbo Cao

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

Elucidating the reasoning process with structured explanations from question to answer is crucial, as it significantly enhances the interpretability, traceability, and trustworthiness of question-answering (QA) systems. However, structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Guoxin Chen , Kexin Tang , Chao Yang , Fuying Ye , Yu Qiao , Yiming Qian

Nowadays, the Internet represents a vast informational space, growing exponentially and the problem of search for relevant data becomes essential as never before. The algorithm proposed in the article allows to perform natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-03 A. Artemov , A. Sergeev , A. Khasenevich , A. Yuzhakov , M. Chugunov

NoSQL databases have become increasingly popular due to their outstanding performance in handling large-scale, unstructured, and semi-structured data, highlighting the need for user-friendly interfaces to bridge the gap between…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jinwei Lu , Yuanfeng Song , Zhiqian Qin , Haodi Zhang , Chen Zhang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong