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The problem of AMR-to-text generation is to recover a text representing the same meaning as an input AMR graph. The current state-of-the-art method uses a sequence-to-sequence model, leveraging LSTM for encoding a linearized AMR structure.…

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The generalizability to new databases is of vital importance to Text-to-SQL systems which aim to parse human utterances into SQL statements. Existing works achieve this goal by leveraging the exact matching method to identify the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Aiwei Liu , Xuming Hu , Li Lin , Lijie Wen

The Text-to-SQL task, aiming to translate the natural language of the questions into SQL queries, has drawn much attention recently. One of the most challenging problems of Text-to-SQL is how to generalize the trained model to the unseen…

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Neural machine translation (NMT) usually works in a seq2seq learning way by viewing either source or target sentence as a linear sequence of words, which can be regarded as a special case of graph, taking words in the sequence as nodes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

Most existing text generation models follow the sequence-to-sequence paradigm. Generative Grammar suggests that humans generate natural language texts by learning language grammar. We propose a syntax-guided generation schema, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yafu Li , Leyang Cui , Jianhao Yan , Yongjing Yin , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi , Yue Zhang

Relational databases are foundational to numerous domains, including business intelligence, scientific research, and enterprise systems. However, accessing and analyzing structured data often requires proficiency in SQL, which is a skill…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Luyu Qiu , Jianing Li , Chi Su , Lei Chen

Generating structural query language (SQL) queries from natural language is a long-standing open problem. Answering a natural language question about a database table requires modeling complex interactions between the columns of the table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

We propose a novel approach for generating complex outputs that significantly improves accuracy in text-to-SQL tasks. Our method leverages execution results to select the most semantically consistent query from multiple candidates, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Łukasz Borchmann , Marek Wydmuch

Transcribing structured data into natural language descriptions has emerged as a challenging task, referred to as "data-to-text". These structures generally regroup multiple elements, as well as their attributes. Most attempts rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Clément Rebuffel , Laure Soulier , Geoffrey Scoutheeten , Patrick Gallinari

The task of graph-to-text generation aims at producing sentences that preserve the meaning of input graphs. As a crucial defect, the current state-of-the-art models may mess up or even drop the core structural information of input graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Linfeng Song , Ante Wang , Jinsong Su , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu , Yubin Ge , Dong Yu

In sophisticated existing Text-to-SQL methods exhibit errors in various proportions, including schema-linking errors (incorrect columns, tables, or extra columns), join errors, nested errors, and group-by errors. Consequently, there is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Sun Yang , Qiong Su , Zhishuai Li , Ziyue Li , Hangyu Mao , Chenxi Liu , Rui Zhao

Data-to-text (D2T) generation aims to transform structured data into natural language text. Data-to-text pre-training has proved to be powerful in enhancing D2T generation and yields impressive performances. However, previous pre-training…

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Generating structured query language (SQL) from natural language is an emerging research topic. This paper presents a new learning paradigm from indirect supervision of the answers to natural language questions, instead of SQL queries. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ziwei Bai , Bo Yu , Bowen Wu , Zhuoran Wang , Baoxun Wang

We present a comparison of word-based and character-based sequence-to-sequence models for data-to-text natural language generation, which generate natural language descriptions for structured inputs. On the datasets of two recent generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Glorianna Jagfeld , Sabrina Jenne , Ngoc Thang Vu

We propose a novel framework for modeling the interaction between graphical structures and the natural language text associated with their nodes and edges. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories. On group ignores the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Aryan Arbabi , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey , Nan Du , Izhak Shafran

Research on parsing language to SQL has largely ignored the structure of the database (DB) schema, either because the DB was very simple, or because it was observed at both training and test time. In Spider, a recently-released text-to-SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ben Bogin , Matt Gardner , Jonathan Berant

We present graph-based translation models which translate source graphs into target strings. Source graphs are constructed from dependency trees with extra links so that non-syntactic phrases are connected. Inspired by phrase-based models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Liangyou Li , Andy Way , Qun Liu

Generating text from graph-based data, such as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), is a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty in how to properly encode the structure of a graph with labeled edges. To address this difficulty, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Claire Gardent , Iryna Gurevych

Recent graph-to-text models generate text from graph-based data using either global or local aggregation to learn node representations. Global node encoding allows explicit communication between two distant nodes, thereby neglecting graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Yue Zhang , Claire Gardent , Iryna Gurevych

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in bridging the gap between natural language queries and database management systems, enabling users to interact with databases without the background of SQL. However,…

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