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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

Converting natural language (NL) questions into SQL queries, referred to as Text-to-SQL, has emerged as a pivotal technology for facilitating access to relational databases, especially for users without SQL knowledge. Recent progress in…

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Translating natural language to SQL for data retrieval has become more accessible thanks to code generation LLMs. But how hard is it to generate SQL code? While databases can become unbounded in complexity, the complexity of queries is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yue Li , David Mimno , Unso Eun Seo Jo

SPARQL is a highly powerful query language for an ever-growing number of Linked Data resources and Knowledge Graphs. Using it requires a certain familiarity with the entities in the domain to be queried as well as expertise in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiaoyu Yin , Dagmar Gromann , Sebastian Rudolph

Querying structured databases with natural language (NL2SQL) has remained a difficult problem for years. Recently, the advancement of machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLM) have led to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zheng Ning , Yuan Tian , Zheng Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Toby Li

The emergence of natural language processing has revolutionized the way users interact with tabular data, enabling a shift from traditional query languages and manual plotting to more intuitive, language-based interfaces. The rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Weixu Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yuanfeng Song , Victor Junqiu Wei , Yuxing Tian , Yiyan Qi , Jonathan H. Chan , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Haiqin Yang

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

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

Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support various commercial applications. The performance of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu Liu , Shuyu Shen , Boyan Li , Peixian Ma , Runzhi Jiang , Yuxin Zhang , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential for applications such as text summarization, sentiment analysis, and automated question-answering. Recently, LLMs have also been integrated into relational database management systems to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kerem Akillioglu , Anurag Chakraborty , Sairaj Voruganti , M. Tamer Özsu

Computer-based information technologies have been extensively used to help many organizations, private companies, and academic and education institutions manage their processes and information systems hereby become their nervous centre. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Mrs. Neelu Nihalani , Dr. Sanjay Silakari , Dr. Mahesh Motwani

NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) translates natural language questions into SQL queries, thereby making structured data accessible to non-technical users, serving as the foundation for intelligent data applications. State-of-the-art NL2SQL…

The rapid progress in Generative AI and Agent technologies is profoundly transforming enterprise data management and analytics. Traditional database applications and system deployment are fundamentally impacted by AI-driven tools, such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xi Wang , Xianyao Ling , Kun Li , Gang Yin , Liang Zhang , Jiang Wu , Annie Wang , Weizhe Wang

Text-to-SQL parsing is an essential and challenging task. The goal of text-to-SQL parsing is to convert a natural language (NL) question to its corresponding structured query language (SQL) based on the evidences provided by relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Bowen Qin , Binyuan Hui , Lihan Wang , Min Yang , Jinyang Li , Binhua Li , Ruiying Geng , Rongyu Cao , Jian Sun , Luo Si , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Good communication is vital in healthcare, both among healthcare professionals, and between healthcare professionals and their patients. And well-written documents, describing and/or explaining the information in structured databases may be…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Alison J. Cawsey , Bonnie L. Webber , Ray B. Jones

The task of generating a database query from a question in natural language suffers from ambiguity and insufficiently precise description of the goal. The problem is amplified when the system needs to generalize to databases unseen at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Anton Osokin , Irina Saparina , Ramil Yarullin

Database systems have to cater to the growing demands of the information age. The growth of the new age information retrieval powerhouses like search engines has thrown a challenge to the data management community to come up with novel…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Gowri Shankar Ramaswamy , F Sagayaraj Francis

Natural language interfaces (NLIs) provide users with a convenient way to interactively analyze data through natural language queries. Nevertheless, interactive data analysis is a demanding process, especially for novice data analysts. When…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xingbo Wang , Furui Cheng , Yong Wang , Ke Xu , Jiang Long , Hong Lu , Huamin Qu

Many users communicate with chatbots and AI assistants in order to help them with various tasks. A key component of the assistant is the ability to understand and answer a user's natural language questions for question-answering (QA).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Anthony Colas , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Moumita Sinha , Doo Soon Kim

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…

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