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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

Recently, substantial progress has been made in text ranking based on pretrained language models such as BERT. However, there are limited studies on how to leverage more powerful sequence-to-sequence models such as T5. Existing attempts…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Rolf Jagerman , Kai Hui , Ji Ma , Jing Lu , Jianmo Ni , Xuanhui Wang , Michael Bendersky

We conduct relatively extensive investigations of automatic hate speech (HS) detection using different state-of-the-art (SoTA) baselines over 11 subtasks of 6 different datasets. Our motivation is to determine which of the recent SoTA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Tosin Adewumi , Sana Sabah Sabry , Nosheen Abid , Foteini Liwicki , Marcus Liwicki

We implement a method for re-ranking top-10 results of a state-of-the-art question answering (QA) system. The goal of our re-ranking approach is to improve the answer selection given the user question and the top-10 candidates. We focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Barz , Daniel Sonntag

Semantic parsing is an important NLP problem, particularly for voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant. State-of-the-art (SOTA) semantic parsers are seq2seq architectures based on large language models that have been pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Subendhu Rongali , Konstantine Arkoudas , Melanie Rubino , Wael Hamza

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive problem-solving skills across many tasks, but they still underperform compared to humans in various downstream applications, such as text-to-SQL. On the BIRD benchmark leaderboard, human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhibo Chu , Zichong Wang , Qitao Qin

Text-to-SQL semantic parsing is an important NLP task, which greatly facilitates the interaction between users and the database and becomes the key component in many human-computer interaction systems. Much recent progress in text-to-SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Longxu Dou , Yan Gao , Mingyang Pan , Dingzirui Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dechen Zhan , Jian-Guang Lou

Existing text-to-SQL benchmarks have largely been constructed from public databases with well-structured schemas and simplistic question-SQL pairs. While large language models (LLMs) excel on these settings, their efficacy in complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Peter Baile Chen , Devin Yang , Weiyue Li , Fabian Wenz , Yi Zhang , Nesime Tatbul , Michael Cafarella , Çağatay Demiralp , Michael Stonebraker

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven effective in complex reasoning tasks like math word problems and code generation. However, when applied to Text-to-SQL datasets, it often fails to improve performance and can even degrade it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hanbing Liu , Haoyang Li , Xiaokang Zhang , Ruotong Chen , Haiyong Xu , Tian Tian , Qi Qi , Jing Zhang

Topics models, such as LDA, are widely used in Natural Language Processing. Making their output interpretable is an important area of research with applications to areas such as the enhancement of exploratory search interfaces and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

Sentence embedding is essential for many NLP tasks, with contrastive learning methods achieving strong performance using annotated datasets like NLI. Yet, the reliance on manual labels limits scalability. Recent studies leverage large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Liyang He , Chenglong Liu , Rui Li , Zhenya Huang , Shulan Ruan , Jun Zhou , Enhong Chen

Data augmentation has attracted a lot of research attention in the deep learning era for its ability in alleviating data sparseness. The lack of labeled data for unseen evaluation databases is exactly the major challenge for cross-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun Wu , Lijie Wang , Zhenghua Li , Ao Zhang , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Min Zhang , Haifeng Wang

Text-to-SQL prompt strategies based on Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance on well-known benchmarks. However, when applied to real-world databases, their performance is significantly less than for these benchmarks,…

Neural semantic parsing has achieved impressive results in recent years, yet its success relies on the availability of large amounts of supervised data. Our goal is to learn a neural semantic parser when only prior knowledge about a limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Yeyun Gong , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Daxin Jiang

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

We explore using T5 (Raffel et al. (2019)) to directly translate natural language questions into SQL statements. General purpose natural language that interfaces to information stored within databases requires flexibly translating natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ning Li , Bethany Keller , Mark Butler , Daniel Cer

Researchers have proposed numerous text-to-SQL techniques to streamline data analytics and accelerate the development of data-driven applications. To compare these techniques and select the best one for deployment, the community depends on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tengjun Jin , Yoojin Choi , Yuxuan Zhu , Daniel Kang

In this paper, we investigate the use of linguistically motivated and computationally efficient structured language models for reranking N-best hypotheses in a statistical machine translation system. These language models, developed from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wen Wang , Andreas Stolcke , Jing Zheng

LLM-based agents for text-to-SQL often struggle with latency-performance trade-off, where performance improvements come at the cost of latency or vice versa. We reformulate text-to-SQL generation within the lens of software test coverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tanmay Parekh , Ella Hofmann-Coyle , Shuyi Wang , Sachith Sri Ram Kothur , Srivas Prasad , Yunmo Chen

In order to reduce the manual cost of designing ER models, recent approaches have been proposed to address the task of NL2ERM, i.e., automatically generating entity-relationship (ER) models from natural language (NL) utterances such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhenwen Li , Jian-Guang Lou , Tao Xie