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The ability to generate natural language sequences from source code snippets has a variety of applications such as code summarization, documentation, and retrieval. Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, adopted from neural machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Uri Alon , Shaked Brody , Omer Levy , Eran Yahav

Many NLP applications can be framed as a graph-to-sequence learning problem. Previous work proposing neural architectures on this setting obtained promising results compared to grammar-based approaches but still rely on linearisation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Daniel Beck , Gholamreza Haffari , Trevor Cohn

Recent years have seen great success in the use of neural seq2seq models on the text-to-SQL task. However, little work has paid attention to how these models generalize to realistic unseen data, which naturally raises a question: does this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Shuaichen Chang , Pengfei Liu , Yun Tang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Natural question generation (QG) aims to generate questions from a passage and an answer. In this paper, we propose a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based graph-to-sequence (Graph2Seq) model for QG. Our model consists of a Graph2Seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Mohammed J. Zaki

In order to facilitate the accesses of general users to knowledge graphs, an increasing effort is being exerted to construct graph-structured queries of given natural language questions. At the core of the construction is to deduce the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ruijie Wang , Meng Wang , Jun Liu , Michael Cochez , Stefan Decker

Text-to-SQL, which translates a natural language question into an SQL query, has advanced with in-context learning of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing methods show little improvement in performance compared to randomly chosen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jihyung Lee , Jin-Seop Lee , Jaehoon Lee , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Text-to-SQL systems facilitate smooth interaction with databases by translating natural language queries into Structured Query Language (SQL), bridging the gap between non-technical users and complex database management systems. This survey…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Aditi Singh , Akash Shetty , Abul Ehtesham , Saket Kumar , Tala Talaei Khoei

We present Graformer, a novel Transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture for graph-to-text generation. With our novel graph self-attention, the encoding of a node relies on all nodes in the input graph - not only direct neighbors -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Martin Schmitt , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Philipp Dufter , Iryna Gurevych , Hinrich Schütze

Despite remarkable progress in text-to-SQL semantic parsing in recent years, the performance of existing parsers is still far from perfect. Specifically, modern text-to-SQL parsers based on deep learning are often over-confident, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shijie Chen , Ziru Chen , Huan Sun , Yu Su

This work aims to tackle the challenging heterogeneous graph encoding problem in the text-to-SQL task. Previous methods are typically node-centric and merely utilize different weight matrices to parameterize edge types, which 1) ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ruisheng Cao , Lu Chen , Zhi Chen , Yanbin Zhao , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

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

Sequence-to-Sequence (seq2seq) modeling has rapidly become an important general-purpose NLP tool that has proven effective for many text-generation and sequence-labeling tasks. Seq2seq builds on deep neural language modeling and inherits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Sam Wiseman , Alexander M. Rush

Recent approaches to data-to-text generation have shown great promise thanks to the use of large-scale datasets and the application of neural network architectures which are trained end-to-end. These models rely on representation learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ratish Puduppully , Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

Knowledge graph (KG) question generation (QG) aims to generate natural language questions from KGs and target answers. Previous works mostly focus on a simple setting which is to generate questions from a single KG triple. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Mohammed J. Zaki

The task of text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language questions into executable SQL queries, has garnered increasing attention in recent years, as it can assist end users in efficiently extracting vital information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jinyang Li , Binyuan Hui , Reynold Cheng , Bowen Qin , Chenhao Ma , Nan Huo , Fei Huang , Wenyu Du , Luo Si , Yongbin Li

In this work, our aim is to provide a structured answer in natural language to a complex information need. Particularly, we envision using generative models from the perspective of data-to-text generation. We propose the use of a content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hanane Djeddal , Thomas Gerald , Laure Soulier , Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat , Lynda Tamine

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

Most existing studies in text-to-SQL tasks do not require generating complex SQL queries with multiple clauses or sub-queries, and generalizing to new, unseen databases. In this paper we propose SyntaxSQLNet, a syntax tree network to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Tao Yu , Michihiro Yasunaga , Kai Yang , Rui Zhang , Dongxu Wang , Zifan Li , Dragomir Radev

Speech-based inputs have been gaining significant momentum with the popularity of smartphones and tablets in our daily lives, since voice is the most easiest and efficient way for human-computer interaction. This paper works towards…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yuanfeng Song , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Xuefang Zhao , Di Jiang

The knowledge graph (KG) stores a large amount of structural knowledge, while it is not easy for direct human understanding. Knowledge graph-to-text (KG-to-text) generation aims to generate easy-to-understand sentences from the KG, and at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jin Liu , Chongfeng Fan , Fengyu Zhou , Huijuan Xu