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Neural models have shown impressive performance gains in answering queries from natural language text. However, existing works are unable to support database queries, such as "List/Count all female athletes who were born in 20th century",…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 James Thorne , Majid Yazdani , Marzieh Saeidi , Fabrizio Silvestri , Sebastian Riedel , Alon Halevy

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

Text-to-SQL, the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries, has long been a central challenge in NLP. While progress has been significant, applying it to the financial domain remains especially difficult due to complex…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-03 Avinash Kumar Singh , Bhaskarjit Sarmah , Stefano Pasquali

Previous work approaches the SQL-to-text generation task using vanilla Seq2Seq models, which may not fully capture the inherent graph-structured information in SQL query. In this paper, we first introduce a strategy to represent the SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Kun Xu , Lingfei Wu , Zhiguo Wang , Yansong Feng , Vadim Sheinin

Dialect translation plays a key role in enabling seamless interaction across heterogeneous database systems. However, translating SQL queries between different dialects (e.g., from PostgreSQL to MySQL) remains a challenging task due to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wei Zhou , Yuyang Gao , Xuanhe Zhou , Guoliang Li

This paper describes DBPal, a new system to translate natural language utterances into SQL statements using a neural machine translation model. While other recent approaches use neural machine translation to implement a Natural Language…

The advancements of Large language models (LLMs) have provided great opportunities to text-to-SQL tasks to overcome the main challenges to understand complex domain information and complex database structures in business applications. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenda Zhang

In the context-dependent Text-to-SQL task, the generated SQL statements are refined iteratively based on the user input utterance from each interaction. The input text from each interaction can be viewed as component modifications to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Aiwei Liu , Wei Liu , Xuming Hu , Shuang Li , Fukun Ma , Yawen Yang , Lijie Wen

We present sql4ml, a system for expressing supervised machine learning (ML) models in SQL and automatically training them in TensorFlow. The primary motivation for this work stems from the observation that in many data science tasks there…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Nantia Makrynioti , Ruy Ley-Wild , Vasilis Vassalos

Recent advances in Text-to-SQL have achieved strong results in static, single-turn tasks, where models generate SQL queries from natural language questions. However, these systems fall short in real-world interactive scenarios, where user…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Linzhuang Sun , Tianyu Guo , Hao Liang , Yuying Li , Qifeng Cai , Jingxuan Wei , Bihui Yu , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

The text-to-SQL task is an active challenge in Natural Language Processing. Many existing solutions focus on using black-box language models extended with specialized components within customized end-to-end text-to-SQL pipelines. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Alicja Rączkowska , Riccardo Belluzzo , Piotr Zieliński , Joanna Baran , Paweł Olszewski

In settings from fact-checking to question answering, we frequently want to know whether a collection of evidence (premises) entails a hypothesis. Existing methods primarily focus on the end-to-end discriminative version of this task, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kaj Bostrom , Zayne Sprague , Swarat Chaudhuri , Greg Durrett

The ability to extract insights from new data sets is critical for decision making. Visual interactive tools play an important role in data exploration since they provide non-technical users with an effective way to visually compose queries…

Building natural language (NL) interfaces for databases has been a long-standing challenge for several decades. The major advantage of these so-called NL-to-SQL systems is that end-users can query complex databases without the need to know…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ursin Brunner , Kurt Stockinger

Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the…

Suggesting similar questions for a user query has many applications ranging from reducing search time of users on e-commerce websites, training of employees in companies to holistic learning for students. The use of Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Shriniwas Nayak , Anuj Kanetkar , Hrushabh Hirudkar , Archana Ghotkar , Sheetal Sonawane , Onkar Litake

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Text-to-SQL generation, allowing users to query structured data using natural language with growing ease. Yet, real-world deployment remains challenging, especially in complex or unseen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Smit Jivani , Sarvam Maheshwari , Sunita Sarawagi

Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

This paper presents a novel approach to translating natural language questions to SQL queries for given tables, which meets three requirements as a real-world data analysis application: cross-domain, multilingualism and enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yan Gao , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in bridging the gap between natural language queries and database management systems, enabling users to interact with databases without the background of SQL. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Qinggang Zhang , Hao Chen , Junnan Dong , Shengyuan Chen , Feiran Huang , Xiao Huang
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