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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional reasoning capabilities, enabling them to solve various complex problems. Recently, this ability has been applied to the paradigm of tool learning. Tool learning involves providing…

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Language-integrated query based on comprehension syntax is a powerful technique for safe database programming, and provides a basis for advanced techniques such as query shredding or query flattening that allow efficient programming with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wilmer Ricciotti , James Cheney

Recent work has suggested that language models (LMs) store both common-sense and factual knowledge learned from pre-training data. In this paper, we leverage this implicit knowledge to create an effective end-to-end fact checker using a…

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Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely primarily on visual observations as input, they often…

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Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

In conversational search, the user's real search intent for the current turn is dependent on the previous conversation history. It is challenging to determine a good search query from the whole conversation context. To avoid the expensive…

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Traditional database queries follow a simple model: they define constraints that each tuple in the result must satisfy. This model is computationally efficient, as the database system can evaluate the query conditions on each tuple…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matteo Brucato , Juan Felipe Beltran , Azza Abouzied , Alexandra Meliou

We present a generative model to map natural language questions into SQL queries. Existing neural network based approaches typically generate a SQL query word-by-word, however, a large portion of the generated results are incorrect or not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jianshu Ji , Guihong Cao , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Ming Zhou

Despite the known limitations, most machine translation systems today still operate on the sentence-level. One reason for this is, that most parallel training data is only sentence-level aligned, without document-level meta information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Frithjof Petrick , Christian Herold , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

With the rising applications implemented in different domains, it is inevitable to require databases to adopt corresponding appropriate data models to store and exchange data derived from various sources. To handle these data models in a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Gongsheng Yuan , Jiaheng Lu , Peifeng Su

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown their success in language understanding and reasoning on general topics. However, their capability to perform inference based on user-specified structured data and knowledge in corpus-rare concepts,…

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Translation of natural language into syntactically correct commands for data visualization is an important application of natural language models and could be leveraged to many different tasks. A closely related effort is the task of…

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In the field of urban planning, general-purpose large language models often struggle to meet the specific needs of planners. Tasks like generating urban planning texts, retrieving related information, and evaluating planning documents pose…

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Federations of RDF data sources provide great potential when queried for answers and insights that cannot be obtained from one data source alone. A challenge for planning the execution of queries over such a federation is that the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sijin Cheng , Olaf Hartig

Translating natural language to SQL queries for table-based question answering is a challenging problem and has received significant attention from the research community. In this work, we extend a pointer-generator and investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Denis Lukovnikov , Nilesh Chakraborty , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant attention, primarily for their capabilities in text-based interactions. However, natural human interaction often relies on speech, necessitating a shift towards voice-based…

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Cognitive planning is the structural decomposition of complex tasks into a sequence of future behaviors. In the computational setting, performing cognitive planning entails grounding plans and concepts in one or more modalities in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Maria Attarian , Advaya Gupta , Ziyi Zhou , Wei Yu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve as components of dialogue, question-answering, and…

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Text-to-SQL, the process of translating natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL), represents a transformative application of large language models (LLMs), potentially revolutionizing how humans interact with data. This paper…

This paper investigates the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in answering questions over datasets. We examine their performance in two scenarios: (a) directly answering questions given a dataset file as input, and (b)…

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