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Text generation from a knowledge base aims to translate knowledge triples to natural language descriptions. Most existing methods ignore the faithfulness between a generated text description and the original table, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhenyi Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Bang An , Dong Yu , Changyou Chen

Due to advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, the boundary between human-written text and AI-generated text has become blurred. Nevertheless, recent work has demonstrated that it is possible to reliably detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Natesh Reddy , Mark Stamp

Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language queries into SQL statements, which is practical as it enables anyone to easily retrieve the desired information from databases. Recently, many existing approaches tackle this problem with Large…

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a large amount of world's knowledge is stored in structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Alexander Hanbo Li , Patrick Ng , Peng Xu , Henghui Zhu , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

The output structure of database-like tables, consisting of values structured in horizontal rows and vertical columns identifiable by name, can cover a wide range of NLP tasks. Following this constatation, we propose a framework for…

We present an end-to-end approach that takes unstructured textual input and generates structured output compliant with a given vocabulary. Inspired by recent successes in neural machine translation, we treat the triples within a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Yue Liu , Tongtao Zhang , Zhicheng Liang , Heng Ji , Deborah L. McGuinness

We present a framework for generating natural language description from structured data such as tables; the problem comes under the category of data-to-text natural language generation (NLG). Modern data-to-text NLG systems typically employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

The text-to-SQL task aims to convert natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL) without bias. Recently, text-to-SQL methods based on large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. The core of mainstream…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zeshun You , Jiebin Yao , Dong Cheng , Zhiwei Wen , Zhiliang Lu , Xianyi Shen

Diffusion model, a new generative modelling paradigm, has achieved great success in image, audio, and video generation. However, considering the discrete categorical nature of text, it is not trivial to extend continuous diffusion models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hongyi Yuan , Zheng Yuan , Chuanqi Tan , Fei Huang , Songfang Huang

In this work, we present X-SQL, a new network architecture for the problem of parsing natural language to SQL query. X-SQL proposes to enhance the structural schema representation with the contextual output from BERT-style pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Pengcheng He , Yi Mao , Kaushik Chakrabarti , Weizhu Chen

Most deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL generation are limited to the WikiSQL dataset, which only supports very simple queries over a single table. We focus on the Spider dataset, a complex and cross-domain text-to-SQL task, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Dongjun Lee

Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data;…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yipeng Zhang , Chen Wang , Yuzhe Zhang , Jacky Jiang

The dominant approach to sequence generation is to produce a sequence in some predefined order, e.g. left to right. In contrast, we propose a more general model that can generate the output sequence by inserting tokens in any arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Dmitrii Emelianenko , Elena Voita , Pavel Serdyukov

Text-editing models have recently become a prominent alternative to seq2seq models for monolingual text-generation tasks such as grammatical error correction, simplification, and style transfer. These tasks share a common trait - they…

A number of researchers have recently questioned the necessity of increasingly complex neural network (NN) architectures. In particular, several recent papers have shown that simpler, properly tuned models are at least competitive across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hamidreza Shahidi , Ming Li , Jimmy Lin

To access data stored in relational databases, users need to understand the database schema and write a query using a query language such as SQL. To simplify this task, text-to-SQL models attempt to translate a user's natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Amol Kelkar , Rohan Relan , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Saurabh Vaichal , Chandra Khatri , Peter Relan

Story generation is a task that aims to automatically produce multiple sentences to make up a meaningful story. This task is challenging because it requires high-level understanding of semantic meaning of sentences and causality of story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hong Chen , Raphael Shu , Hiroya Takamura , Hideki Nakayama

In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based methodology to evaluate the functional correctness of SQL generation. Conventional metrics for assessing SQL code generation, such as matching-based and execution-based methods (e.g., exact set…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yi Zhan , Yang Sun , Han Weng , Longjie Cui , Guifeng Wang , Jiajun Xie , Yu Tian , Xiaoming Yin , Boyi Liu , Dongchi Huang

Relational structures such as schema linking and schema encoding have been validated as a key component to qualitatively translating natural language into SQL queries. However, introducing these structural relations comes with prices: they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiexing Qi , Jingyao Tang , Ziwei He , Xiangpeng Wan , Yu Cheng , Chenghu Zhou , Xinbing Wang , Quanshi Zhang , Zhouhan Lin

Neural sequence-to-sequence models provide a competitive approach to the task of mapping a question in natural language to an SQL query, also referred to as text-to-SQL generation. The Byte-Pair Encoding algorithm (BPE) has previously been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Samuel Müller , Andreas Vlachos