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This work reframes the Text-to-SQL task as a pathway for teaching large language models (LLMs) to reason over and manipulate tabular data--moving beyond the traditional focus on query generation. We propose a two-stage framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Julien Fauqueur

Grammar-based parsers have achieved high performance in the cross-domain text-to-SQL parsing task, but suffer from low decoding efficiency due to the much larger number of actions for grammar selection than that of tokens in SQL queries.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Kun Wu , Lijie Wang , Zhenghua Li , Xinyan Xiao

We introduce a framework for generating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) rationales to enhance text-to-SQL model fine-tuning. These rationales consist of intermediate SQL statements and explanations, serving as incremental steps toward constructing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Gaetano Rossiello , Nhan Pham , Michael Glass , Junkyu Lee , Dharmashankar Subramanian

In the Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) paradigm, improving data quality is essential for robust machine learning. However, many denoising methods rely on rigid statistical assumptions or require clean reference data, which limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 J. Javier Alonso-Ramos , Ignacio Aguilera-Martos , Francisco Herrera , Andrés Herrera-Poyatos

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating text to help people conveniently obtain salient information in tables. Recent works explicitly decompose the generation process into content planning and surface generation stages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Liang Li , Ruiying Geng , Chengyang Fang , Bing Li , Can Ma , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li

We present a comprehensive evaluation of structured decoding for text-to-table generation with large language models (LLMs). While previous work has primarily focused on unconstrained generation of tables, the impact of enforcing structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julian Oestreich , Lydia Müller

The data-centric paradigm has emerged as a pivotal direction in artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing the role of high-quality training data. This shift is especially critical in the Text-to-SQL task, where the scarcity, limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Chang Xu , Tao Xie , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

Despite their fundamental role, it remains unclear what properties could make tokenizers more effective for generative modeling. We observe that modern generative models share a conceptually similar training objective -- reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiawei Yang , Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

Given a database schema, Text-to-SQL aims to translate a natural language question into the corresponding SQL query. Under the setup of cross-domain, traditional semantic parsing models struggle to adapt to unseen database schemas. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Yanbin Zhao , Ruisheng Cao , Zihan Xu , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

Text-to-SQL generation aims to translate natural language questions into SQL statements. In Text-to-SQL based on large language models, schema linking is a widely adopted strategy to streamline the input for LLMs by selecting only relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zhenbiao Cao , Yuanlei Zheng , Zhihao Fan , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiang Bai

In the last few years, many different methods have been focusing on using deep recurrent neural networks for natural language generation. The most widely used sequence-to-sequence neural methods are word-based: as such, they need a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Marco Roberti , Giovanni Bonetta , Rossella Cancelliere , Patrick Gallinari

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

The celebrated Sequence to Sequence learning (Seq2Seq) technique and its numerous variants achieve excellent performance on many tasks. However, many machine learning tasks have inputs naturally represented as graphs; existing Seq2Seq…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Kun Xu , Lingfei Wu , Zhiguo Wang , Yansong Feng , Michael Witbrock , Vadim Sheinin

The celebrated Seq2Seq technique and its numerous variants achieve excellent performance on many tasks such as neural machine translation, semantic parsing, and math word problem solving. However, these models either only consider input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Shucheng Li , Lingfei Wu , Shiwei Feng , Fangli Xu , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

We propose a novel approach for generating complex outputs that significantly improves accuracy in text-to-SQL tasks. Our method leverages execution results to select the most semantically consistent query from multiple candidates, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Łukasz Borchmann , Marek Wydmuch

Most deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL generation are limited to the WikiSQL dataset, which only supports very simple queries. Recently, template-based and sequence-to-sequence approaches were proposed to support complex queries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Dongjun Lee , Jaesik Yoon , Jongyun Song , Sanggil Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Text-to-SQL is a task to generate SQL queries from human utterances. However, due to the variation of natural language, two semantically equivalent utterances may appear differently in the lexical level. Likewise, user preferences (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pingchuan Ma , Shuai Wang

Text-to-SQL is a technology that converts natural language queries into the structured query language SQL. A novel research approach that has recently gained attention focuses on methods based on the complexity of SQL queries, achieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiawen Yi , Guo Chen , Zixiang Shen

Recent text-to-SQL models have achieved strong performance, but their effectiveness remains largely confined to SQLite due to dataset limitations. However, real-world applications require SQL generation across multiple dialects with varying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jipeng Zhang , Haolin Yang , Kehao Miao , Ruiyuan Zhang , Renjie Pi , Jiahui Gao , Xiaofang Zhou

Single-table text-to-SQL aims to transform a natural language question into a SQL query according to one single table. Recent work has made promising progress on this task by pre-trained language models and a multi-submodule framework.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yongrui Chen , Xinnan Guo , Chaojie Wang , Jian Qiu , Guilin Qi , Meng Wang , Huiying Li