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Previous work approaches the SQL-to-text generation task using vanilla Seq2Seq models, which may not fully capture the inherent graph-structured information in SQL query. In this paper, we first introduce a strategy to represent the SQL…

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In this work, we focus on two crucial components in the cross-domain text-to-SQL semantic parsing task: schema linking and value filling. To encourage the model to learn better encoding ability, we propose a column selection auxiliary task…

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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

A new method for Text-to-SQL parsing, Grammar Pre-training (GP), is proposed to decode deep relations between question and database. Firstly, to better utilize the information of databases, a random value is added behind a question word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Liang Zhao , Hexin Cao , Yunsong Zhao

Structured data, prevalent in tables, databases, and knowledge graphs, poses a significant challenge in its representation. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), there has been a shift towards linearization-based methods, which…

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Graphs provide a unified representation of semantic content and relational structure, making them a natural fit for domains such as molecular modeling, citation networks, and social graphs. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haotian Xu , Yuning You , Tengfei Ma

We propose STRuCT-LLM, a unified framework for training large language models (LLMs) to perform structured reasoning over both relational and graph-structured data. Our approach jointly optimizes Text-to-SQL and Text-to-Cypher tasks using…

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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ruichu Cai , Jinjie Yuan , Boyan Xu , Zhifeng Hao

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

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

We present Spider, a large-scale, complex and cross-domain semantic parsing and text-to-SQL dataset annotated by 11 college students. It consists of 10,181 questions and 5,693 unique complex SQL queries on 200 databases with multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Tao Yu , Rui Zhang , Kai Yang , Michihiro Yasunaga , Dongxu Wang , Zifan Li , James Ma , Irene Li , Qingning Yao , Shanelle Roman , Zilin Zhang , Dragomir Radev

How can we best encode structured data into sequential form for use in large language models (LLMs)? In this work, we introduce a parameter-efficient method to explicitly represent structured data for LLMs. Our method, GraphToken, learns an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bryan Perozzi , Bahare Fatemi , Dustin Zelle , Anton Tsitsulin , Mehran Kazemi , Rami Al-Rfou , Jonathan Halcrow

In deep neural networks, better results can often be obtained by increasing the complexity of previously developed basic models. However, it is unclear whether there is a way to boost performance by decreasing the complexity of such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Junran Wu , Jianhao Li , Yicheng Pan , Ke Xu

With Large Language Models' (LLMs) emergent abilities on code generation tasks, Text-to-SQL has become one of the most popular downstream applications. Despite the strong results of multiple recent LLM-based Text-to-SQL frameworks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dazhi Peng

Most recent research on Text-to-SQL semantic parsing relies on either parser itself or simple heuristic based approach to understand natural language query (NLQ). When synthesizing a SQL query, there is no explicit semantic information of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jun Wang , Patrick Ng , Alexander Hanbo Li , Jiarong Jiang , Zhiguo Wang , Ramesh Nallapati , Bing Xiang , Sudipta Sengupta

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…

In addressing the task of converting natural language to SQL queries, there are several semantic and syntactic challenges. It becomes increasingly important to understand and remedy the points of failure as the performance of semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Parker Glenn , Parag Pravin Dakle , Preethi Raghavan

Recently pre-training models have significantly improved the performance of various NLP tasks by leveraging large-scale text corpora to improve the contextual representation ability of the neural network. The large pre-training language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Bowen Qin , Lihan Wang , Binyuan Hui , Ruiying Geng , Zheng Cao , Min Yang , Jian Sun , Yongbin Li

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are de facto solutions to structural data learning. However, it is susceptible to low-quality and unreliable structure, which has been a norm rather than an exception in real-world graphs. Existing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Dongcheng Zou , Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Renyu Yang , Jianxin Li , Jia Wu , Chunyang Liu , Philip S. Yu