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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

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

Recurrent neural nets (RNN) and convolutional neural nets (CNN) are widely used on NLP tasks to capture the long-term and local dependencies, respectively. Attention mechanisms have recently attracted enormous interest due to their highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

The ability to generate SQL queries from natural language has significant implications for making data accessible to non-specialists. This paper presents a novel approach to fine-tuning open-source large language models (LLMs) for the task…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Amine Rebei

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

Language-integrated query based on comprehension syntax is a powerful technique for safe database programming, and provides a basis for advanced techniques such as query shredding or query flattening that allow efficient programming with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wilmer Ricciotti , James Cheney

Introducing attentional mechanism in neural network is a powerful concept, and has achieved impressive results in many natural language processing tasks. However, most of the existing models impose attentional distribution on a flat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-25 PengFei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

The data-centric paradigm has emerged as a pivotal direction in artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing the role of high-quality training data. This shift is especially critical in the Text-to-SQL task, where the scarcity, limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Chang Xu , Tao Xie , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

The task of multi-turn text-to-SQL semantic parsing aims to translate natural language utterances in an interaction into SQL queries in order to answer them using a database which normally contains multiple table schemas. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Run-Ze Wang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Jing-Bo Zhou , Yu Hu

This paper concerns with the conversion of a Spoken English Language Query into SQL for retrieving data from RDBMS. A User submits a query as speech signal through the user interface and gets the result of the query in the text format. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Sachin Kumar , Ashish Kumar , Pinaki Mitra , Girish Sundaram

We apply distributed language embedding methods from Natural Language Processing to assign a vector to each database entity associated token (for example, a token may be a word occurring in a table row, or the name of a column). These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Rajesh Bordawekar , Oded Shmueli

Text-to-SQL task aims to automatically yield SQL queries according to user text questions. To address this problem, we propose a Cooperative SQL Generation framework based on Multi-functional Agents (CSMA) through information interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhiguang Wu , Fengbin Zhu , Xuequn Shang , Yupei Zhang , Pan Zhou

Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

To translate natural language questions into executable database queries, most approaches rely on a fully annotated training set. Annotating a large dataset with queries is difficult as it requires query-language expertise. We reduce this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Irina Saparina , Anton Osokin

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

We propose a simple neural architecture for natural language inference. Our approach uses attention to decompose the problem into subproblems that can be solved separately, thus making it trivially parallelizable. On the Stanford Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Ankur P. Parikh , Oscar Täckström , Dipanjan Das , Jakob Uszkoreit

We present a neural approach called IRNet for complex and cross-domain Text-to-SQL. IRNet aims to address two challenges: 1) the mismatch between intents expressed in natural language (NL) and the implementation details in SQL; 2) the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jiaqi Guo , Zecheng Zhan , Yan Gao , Yan Xiao , Jian-Guang Lou , Ting Liu , Dongmei Zhang

We propose Cognitive Databases, an approach for transparently enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities in relational databases. A novel aspect of our design is to first view the structured data source as meaningful unstructured…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Rajesh Bordawekar , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Oded Shmueli

We study automatic question generation for sentences from text passages in reading comprehension. We introduce an attention-based sequence learning model for the task and investigate the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Xinya Du , Junru Shao , Claire Cardie

We consider the problem of neural semantic parsing, which translates natural language questions into executable SQL queries. We introduce a new mechanism, execution guidance, to leverage the semantics of SQL. It detects and excludes faulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Chenglong Wang , Kedar Tatwawadi , Marc Brockschmidt , Po-Sen Huang , Yi Mao , Oleksandr Polozov , Rishabh Singh