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Text-to-SQL translates natural language queries into Structured Query Language (SQL) commands, enabling users to interact with databases using natural language. Essentially, the text-to-SQL task is a text generation task, and its…

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Scripting interfaces enable users to automate tasks and customize software workflows, but creating scripts traditionally requires programming expertise and familiarity with specific APIs, posing barriers for many users. While Large Language…

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NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) systems translate natural language into SQL queries, allowing users with no technical background to interact with databases and create tools like reports or visualizations. While recent advancements in large…

Designing a reliable natural language (NL) interface for querying tables has been a longtime goal of researchers in both the data management and natural language processing (NLP) communities. Such an interface receives as input an NL…

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Existing Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) solutions have made significant advancements, yet challenges persist in interpreting and translating NL queries, primarily due to users' limited understanding of database schemas or memory biases…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Peixian Ma , Boyan Li , Runzhi Jiang , Ju Fan , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

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…

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Industrial AI systems are mostly end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows. A typical recommendation or business intelligence system includes many online micro-services and offline jobs. We describe SQLFlow for developing such workflows…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi Wang , Yang Yang , Weiguo Zhu , Yi Wu , Xu Yan , Yongfeng Liu , Yu Wang , Liang Xie , Ziyao Gao , Wenjing Zhu , Xiang Chen , Wei Yan , Mingjie Tang , Yuan Tang

Text-to-SQL systems provide a natural language interface that can enable even laymen to access information stored in databases. However, existing Large Language Models (LLM) struggle with SQL generation from natural instructions due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fahim Ahmed , Md Mubtasim Ahasan , Jahir Sadik Monon , Muntasir Wahed , M Ashraful Amin , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , Amin Ahsan Ali

Ontologies are known to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) when translating natural language queries into a formal query language like SQL or SPARQL. There are two ways to leverage ontologies when working with LLMs. One is…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-15 C. Civili , E. Sherkhonov , R. E. K. Stirewalt

Translating natural language questions into SQL has become a core challenge in enabling non-technical users to query databases. While recent work has explored large-scale synthetic data generation to improve model performance through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hasan Alp Caferoğlu , Mehmet Serhat Çelik , Özgür Ulusoy

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) provides a new model-centric paradigm that simplifies database access for non-technical users by converting natural language queries into SQL commands. Recent advancements, particularly those integrating…

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Computational notebooks, such as Jupyter notebooks, are interactive computing environments that are ubiquitous among data scientists to perform data wrangling and analytic tasks. To measure the performance of AI pair programmers that…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in translating natural language questions into SQL queries (Text-to-SQL). In contrast, small language models (SLMs) ranging from 0.5B to 1.5B parameters currently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lei Sheng , Shuai-Shuai Xu

Querying databases for the right information is a time consuming and error-prone task and often requires experienced professionals for the job. Furthermore, the user needs to have some prior knowledge about the database. There have been…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Manu Joseph , Harsh Raj , Anubhav Yadav , Aaryamann Sharma

Learning a natural language interface for database tables is a challenging task that involves deep language understanding and multi-step reasoning. The task is often approached by mapping natural language queries to logical forms or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Arvind Neelakantan , Quoc V. Le , Martin Abadi , Andrew McCallum , Dario Amodei

Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data;…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yipeng Zhang , Chen Wang , Yuzhe Zhang , Jacky Jiang

The Natural Language Interface to Databases (NLIDB) empowers non-technical users with database access through intuitive natural language (NL) interactions. Advanced approaches, utilizing neural sequence-to-sequence models or large-scale…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuankai Fan , Zhenying He , Tonghui Ren , Can Huang , Yinan Jing , Kai Zhang , X. Sean 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

Natural-language-to-SQL (NL-to-SQL) systems hold promise for democratizing access to structured data, allowing users to query databases without learning SQL. Yet existing systems struggle with realistic spatio-temporal queries, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Manu Redd , Tao Zhe , Dongjie Wang