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Neural models have shown impressive performance gains in answering queries from natural language text. However, existing works are unable to support database queries, such as "List/Count all female athletes who were born in 20th century",…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 James Thorne , Majid Yazdani , Marzieh Saeidi , Fabrizio Silvestri , Sebastian Riedel , Alon Halevy

Search typically relies on keyword queries, but these are often semantically ambiguous. We propose to overcome this by offering users natural language questions, based on their keyword queries, to disambiguate their intent. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Heng Ding , Krisztian Balog

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) enables intuitive interactions with databases by transforming natural language queries into structured SQL statements. Despite recent advancements in enhancing human-computer interaction within database…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Peixian Ma , Xialie Zhuang , Chengjin Xu , Xuhui Jiang , Ran Chen , Jian Guo

We present a simple methods to leverage the table content for the BERT-based model to solve the text-to-SQL problem. Based on the observation that some of the table content match some words in question string and some of the table header…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Translating natural language questions into SQL has become a core challenge in enabling non-technical users to query databases. While recent work has explored large-scale synthetic data generation to improve model performance through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hasan Alp Caferoğlu , Mehmet Serhat Çelik , Özgür Ulusoy

Chatbots and AI assistants have claimed their importance in today life. The main reason behind adopting this technology is to connect with the user, understand their requirements, and fulfill them. This has been achieved but at the cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Muhammad Hamzah Mushtaq

Text-to-SQL aims to map natural language questions to SQL queries. The sketch-based method combined with execution-guided (EG) decoding strategy has shown a strong performance on the WikiSQL benchmark. However, execution-guided decoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Binyuan Hui , Xiang Shi , Ruiying Geng , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li , Jian Sun , Xiaodan Zhu

Mining causality from text is a complex and crucial natural language understanding task corresponding to the human cognition. Existing studies at its solution can be grouped into two primary categories: feature engineering based and neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shining Liang , Wanli Zuo , Zhenkun Shi , Sen Wang , Junhu Wang , Xianglin Zuo

We consider machine learning models, learned from data, to be an important, intensional, kind of data in themselves. As such, various analysis tasks on models can be thought of as queries over this intensional data, often combined with…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Mark Gerarts , Juno Steegmans , Jan Van den Bussche

In recent years, the task of text-to-SQL translation, which converts natural language questions into executable SQL queries, has gained significant attention for its potential to democratize data access. Despite its promise, challenges such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Adrián Bazaga , Pietro Liò , Gos Micklem

Generating accurate SQL from users' natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database schema comprehension, and SQL generation. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zijin Hong , Zheng Yuan , Qinggang Zhang , Hao Chen , Junnan Dong , Feiran Huang , Xiao Huang

Despite impressive success, language models often generate outputs with flawed linguistic structure. We analyze the effect of directly infusing various kinds of syntactic and semantic information into large language models. To demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anton Bulle Labate , Fabio Gagliardi Cozman

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…

Semantic parsing has emerged as a significant and powerful paradigm for natural language interface and question answering systems. Traditional methods of building a semantic parser rely on high-quality lexicons, hand-crafted grammars and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Liang Li , Pengyu Li , Yifan Liu , Tao Wan , Zengchang Qin

We describe a question answering model that applies to both images and structured knowledge bases. The model uses natural language strings to automatically assemble neural networks from a collection of composable modules. Parameters for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Jacob Andreas , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Dan Klein

We develop a novel bi-directional attention model for dependency parsing, which learns to agree on headword predictions from the forward and backward parsing directions. The parsing procedure for each direction is formulated as sequentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Hao Cheng , Hao Fang , Xiaodong He , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

In recent years, the surge in unstructured data analysis, facilitated by advancements in Machine Learning (ML), has prompted diverse approaches for handling images, text documents, and videos. Analysts, leveraging ML models, can extract…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Akash Mittal , Anshul Bheemreddy , Huili Tao

In natural languages, words are used in association to construct sentences. It is not words in isolation, but the appropriate combination of hierarchical structures that conveys the meaning of the whole sentence. Neural networks can capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Miruna Pislar , Marek Rei

Neural networks with attention have proven effective for many natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we develop attention mechanisms for uncertainty detection. In particular, we generalize standardly used attention mechanisms by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Heike Adel , Hinrich Schütze

Text-to-SQL translates natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling intuitive database access for non-experts. While large language models achieve strong performance on Text-to-SQL with prompting, they still struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhao Tan , Xiping Liu , Qing Shu , Qizhi Wan , Dexi Liu , Changxuan Wan