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In this paper, we propose a novel SQL guided pre-training framework STAR for context-dependent text-to-SQL parsing, which leverages contextual information to enrich natural language (NL) utterance and table schema representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zefeng Cai , Xiangyu Li , Binyuan Hui , Min Yang , Bowen Li , Binhua Li , Zheng Cao , Weijie Li , Fei Huang , Luo Si , Yongbin Li

Logical table-to-text generation is a task that involves generating logically faithful sentences from tables, which requires models to derive logical level facts from table records via logical inference. It raises a new challenge on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ao Liu , Haoyu Dong , Naoaki Okazaki , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Lawrence Phillips , Casper Hansen , Julien Fauqueur

Text-to-SQL is a crucial task toward developing methods for understanding natural language by computers. Recent neural approaches deliver excellent performance; however, models that are difficult to interpret inhibit future developments.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yasufumi Taniguchi , Hiroki Nakayama , Kubo Takahiro , Jun Suzuki

Since we can leverage a large amount of unlabeled data without any human supervision to train a model and transfer the knowledge to target tasks, self-supervised learning is a de-facto component for the recent success of deep learning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Donggyu Kim , Seanie Lee

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved the performance of text-to-SQL systems. Nevertheless, many state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches have overlooked the critical aspect of system robustness. Our experiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Geling Liu , Yunzhi Tan , Ruichao Zhong , Yuanzhen Xie , Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Bo Hu , Zang Li

One of the recent best attempts at Text-to-SQL is the pre-trained language model. Due to the structural property of the SQL queries, the seq2seq model takes the responsibility of parsing both the schema items (i.e., tables and columns) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haoyang Li , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

There are many recent advanced developments for the Text-to-SQL task, where the Picard model is one of the the top performing models as measured by the Spider dataset competition. However, bringing Text-to-SQL systems to realistic use-cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Irene Manotas , Octavian Popescu , Ngoc Phuoc An Vo , Vadim Sheinin

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

Neural text-to-SQL models have achieved remarkable performance in translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, recent studies reveal that text-to-SQL models are vulnerable to task-specific perturbations. Previous…

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

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks to translate text descriptions into SQL queries. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchmarks, existing text-to-SQL models typically rely on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yujian Gan , Xinyun Chen , Qiuping Huang , Matthew Purver , John R. Woodward , Jinxia Xie , Pengsheng Huang

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

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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with the precise logic and schema alignment required for complex Text-to-SQL tasks. While current methods rely heavily on static prompting, they lack the ability to dynamically adapt and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haolin Yang , Jipeng Zhang , Zhitao He , Alexander Zhou , Yi R. Fung

Relational tables on the Web store a vast amount of knowledge. Owing to the wealth of such tables, there has been tremendous progress on a variety of tasks in the area of table understanding. However, existing work generally relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Xiang Deng , Huan Sun , Alyssa Lees , You Wu , Cong Yu

Exploring the generalization of a text-to-SQL parser is essential for a system to automatically adapt the real-world databases. Previous works provided investigations focusing on lexical diversity, including the influence of the synonym and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Jieyu Li , Lu Chen , Ruisheng Cao , Su Zhu , Hongshen Xu , Zhi Chen , Hanchong Zhang , Kai Yu

It is challenging to convert natural language (NL) questions into executable structured query language (SQL) queries for text-to-SQL tasks due to the vast number of database schemas with redundancy, which interferes with semantic learning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhuopan Yang , Yuanzhen Xie , Ruichao Zhong , Yunzhi Tan , Enjie Liu , Zhenguo Yang , Mochi Gao , Bo Hu , Zang Li

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
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