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The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to change the way queries are processed, moving beyond the constraints of conventional SQL-based database systems. However, using an LLM to answer a prediction query is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ziyu Li , Wenjie Zhao , Asterios Katsifodimos , Rihan Hai

Question Answering over Tabular Data (Table QA) presents unique challenges due to the diverse structure, size, and data types of real-world tables. The SemEval 2025 Task 8 (DataBench) introduced a benchmark composed of large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Rishit Tyagi , Mohit Gupta , Rahul Bouri

While systems designed for solving planning tasks vastly outperform Large Language Models (LLMs) in this domain, they usually discard the rich semantic information embedded within task descriptions. In contrast, LLMs possess parametrised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Andrey Borro , Patricia J Riddle , Michael W Barley , Michael J Witbrock

Our work is the first attempt to apply Natural Language Processing to automate the development of simulation models of systems vitally important for logistics. We demonstrated that the framework built on top of the fine-tuned GPT-3 Codex, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ilya Jackson , Maria Jesus Saenz

Real-world planning problems require constant adaptation to changing requirements and balancing of competing constraints. However, current benchmarks for evaluating LLMs' planning capabilities primarily focus on static, single-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Juhyun Oh , Eunsu Kim , Alice Oh

Tabular data, a prevalent data type across various domains, presents unique challenges due to its heterogeneous nature and complex structural relationships. Achieving high predictive performance and robustness in tabular data analysis holds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Jingying Ma , Yizhi Dong , Kai He , Mengling Feng

Recent neural text-to-SQL models can effectively translate natural language questions to corresponding SQL queries on unseen databases. Working mostly on the Spider dataset, researchers have proposed increasingly sophisticated solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Torsten Scholak , Raymond Li , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Harm de Vries , Chris Pal

Comparing relational languages by their logical expressiveness is well understood. Less well understood is how to compare relational languages by their ability to represent relational query patterns. Indeed, what are query patterns other…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Cody Dunne

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies have revolutionized the way we interact with information systems, with a significant focus on converting natural language queries into formal query languages such as SQL. However, less emphasis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Luming Lu , Jiyuan An , Yujie Wang , Liner yang , Cunliang Kong , Zhenghao Liu , Shuo Wang , Haozhe Lin , Mingwei Fang , Yaping Huang , Erhong Yang

This paper introduces text-2-SQL-4-PM, a bilingual (Portuguese-English) benchmark dataset designed for the text-to-SQL task in the process mining domain. Text-to-SQL conversion facilitates natural language querying of databases, increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Bruno Yui Yamate , Thais Rodrigues Neubauer , Marcelo Fantinato , Sarajane Marques Peres

Query rewrite, which aims to generate more efficient queries by altering a SQL query's structure without changing the query result, has been an important research problem. In order to maintain equivalence between the rewritten query and the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhaodonghui Li , Haitao Yuan , Huiming Wang , Gao Cong , Lidong Bing

A significant amount of the world's knowledge is stored in relational databases. However, the ability for users to retrieve facts from a database is limited due to a lack of understanding of query languages such as SQL. We propose Seq2SQL,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Victor Zhong , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

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

Search typically relies on keyword queries, but these are often semantically ambiguous. We propose to overcome this by offering users natural language questions, based on their keyword queries, to disambiguate their intent. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Heng Ding , Krisztian Balog

Text-to-SQL bridges the gap between natural language and structured database language, thus allowing non-technical users to easily query databases. Traditional approaches model text-to-SQL as a direct translation task, where a given Natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Anurag Tripathi , Vaibhav Patle , Abhinav Jain , Ayush Pundir , Sairam Menon , Ajeet Kumar Singh , Dorien Herremans

Contemporary spatial services such as online maps predominantly rely on user queries for location searches. However, the user experience is limited when performing complex tasks, such as searching for a group of locations simultaneously. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ivan Khai Ze Lim , Ningyi Liao , Yiming Yang , Gerald Wei Yong Yip , Siqiang Luo

Code search is a task to find programming codes that semantically match the given natural language queries. Even though some of the existing datasets for this task are multilingual on the programming language side, their query data are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ryo Sekizawa , Nan Duan , Shuai Lu , Hitomi Yanaka

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely deployed to solve problems related to marketing attribution and budget optimization. However, AI models can be quite complex, and it can be difficult to understand model workings and insights without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yilin Gao , Sai Kumar Arava , Yancheng Li , James W. Snyder

In this work, we address question answering (QA) over a hybrid of tabular and textual data that are very common content on the Web (e.g. SEC filings), where discrete reasoning capabilities are often required. Recently, large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Fengbin Zhu , Ziyang Liu , Fuli Feng , Chao Wang , Moxin Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Generating structured query language (SQL) from natural language is an emerging research topic. This paper presents a new learning paradigm from indirect supervision of the answers to natural language questions, instead of SQL queries. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ziwei Bai , Bo Yu , Bowen Wu , Zhuoran Wang , Baoxun Wang