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Tabular data analysis is crucial in various fields, and large language models show promise in this area. However, current research mostly focuses on rudimentary tasks like Text2SQL and TableQA, neglecting advanced analysis like forecasting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Rui Ding , Lun Du , Yan Gao , Ran Jia , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Zejian Yuan , Dongmei Zhang

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

When translating natural language questions into SQL queries to answer questions from a database, contemporary semantic parsing models struggle to generalize to unseen database schemas. The generalization challenge lies in (a) encoding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Bailin Wang , Richard Shin , Xiaodong Liu , Oleksandr Polozov , Matthew Richardson

Real-time data analysis and management are increasingly critical for today`s businesses. SQL is the de facto lingua franca for these endeavors, yet support for robust streaming analysis and management with SQL remains limited. Many…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Edmon Begoli , Tyler Akidau , Fabian Hueske , Julian Hyde , Kathryn Knight , Kenneth Knowles

In this paper, we propose a hybrid technique for semantic question matching. It uses our proposed two-layered taxonomy for English questions by augmenting state-of-the-art deep learning models with question classes obtained from a deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Deepak Gupta , Rajkumar Pujari , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Anutosh Maitra , Tom Jain , Shubhashis Sengupta

Despite advances in large language model (LLM)-based natural language interfaces for databases, scaling to enterprise-level data catalogs remains an under-explored challenge. Prior works addressing this challenge rely on domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jeffrey Eben , Aitzaz Ahmad , Stephen Lau

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

In modern industry systems like multi-turn chat agents, Text-to-SQL technology bridges natural language (NL) questions and database (DB) querying. The conversion of tabular DB results into NL representations (NLRs) enables the chat-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jyotika Singh , Weiyi Sun , Amit Agarwal , Viji Krishnamurthy , Yassine Benajiba , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

In recent years, the task of text-to-SQL translation, which converts natural language questions into executable SQL queries, has gained significant attention for its potential to democratize data access. Despite its promise, challenges such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Adrián Bazaga , Pietro Liò , Gos Micklem

During the last two decades, it has been increasingly acknowledged that the engineering of information systems usually requires a huge effort in integrating master data and business processes. This has led to a plethora of proposals, both…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Diego Calvanese , Marco Montali , Fabio Patrizi , Andrey Rivkin

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yiming Huang , Jiyu Guo , Wenxin Mao , Cuiyun Gao , Peiyi Han , Chuanyi Liu , Qing Ling

Dialect translation plays a key role in enabling seamless interaction across heterogeneous database systems. However, translating SQL queries between different dialects (e.g., from PostgreSQL to MySQL) remains a challenging task due to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wei Zhou , Yuyang Gao , Xuanhe Zhou , Guoliang Li

Recent progress in language model pre-training has achieved a great success via leveraging large-scale unstructured textual data. However, it is still a challenge to apply pre-training on structured tabular data due to the absence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Qian Liu , Bei Chen , Jiaqi Guo , Morteza Ziyadi , Zeqi Lin , Weizhu Chen , Jian-Guang Lou

Text analytical tasks like word embedding, phrase mining, and topic modeling, are placing increasing demands as well as challenges to existing database management systems. In this paper, we provide a novel algebraic approach based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xiuwen Zheng , Amarnath Gupta

We propose a new framework, Translation between Augmented Natural Languages (TANL), to solve many structured prediction language tasks including joint entity and relation extraction, nested named entity recognition, relation classification,…

Graph-based semi-supervised learning has proven to be an effective approach for query-focused multi-document summarization. The problem of previous semi-supervised learning is that sentences are ranked without considering the higher level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Jiwei Li , Sujian Li

Context-dependent text-to-SQL is the task of translating multi-turn questions into database-related SQL queries. Existing methods typically focus on making full use of history context or previously predicted SQL for currently SQL parsing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dongling Xiao , Linzheng Chai , Qian-Wen Zhang , Zhao Yan , Zhoujun Li , Yunbo Cao

Natural language processing is a prompt research area across the country. Parsing is one of the very crucial tool in language analysis system which aims to forecast the structural relationship among the words in a given sentence. Many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-26 K. Sureka , K. G. Srinivasagan , S. Suganthi

A natural language interface (NLI) to databases is an interface that translates a natural language question to a structured query that is executable by database management systems (DBMS). However, an NLI that is trained in the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jingjing Li , Wenlu Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku , Yingtao Tian , Haixun Wang

Translating natural language queries (NLQ) into structured query language (SQL) in interfaces to relational databases is a challenging task that has been widely studied by researchers from both the database and natural language processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Arif Usta , Akifhan Karakayali , Özgür Ulusoy