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The fundamental goal of the Text-to-SQL task is to translate natural language question into SQL query. Current research primarily emphasizes the information coupling between natural language questions and schemas, and significant progress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jiawen Yi , Guo Chen

In conventional supervised training, a model is trained to fit all the training examples. However, having a monolithic model may not always be the best strategy, as examples could vary widely. In this work, we explore a different learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Po-Sen Huang , Chenglong Wang , Rishabh Singh , Wen-tau Yih , Xiaodong He

Large language models have recently advanced the state of the art on many natural language processing benchmarks. The newest generation of models can be applied to a variety of tasks with little to no specialized training. This technology…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Immanuel Trummer

This study explores text-to-SQL parsing by leveraging the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Despite recent advancements, existing LLM-based methods are still inefficient and struggle to handle cases with wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Guanming Xiong , Junwei Bao , Hongfei Jiang , Yang Song , Wen Zhao

This paper presents a new technique for automatically synthesizing SQL queries from natural language. Our technique is fully automated, works for any database without requiring additional customization, and does not require users to know…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Navid Yaghmazadeh , Yuepeng Wang , Isil Dillig , Thomas Dillig

Text-to-SQL is a crucial task toward developing methods for understanding natural language by computers. Recent neural approaches deliver excellent performance; however, models that are difficult to interpret inhibit future developments.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yasufumi Taniguchi , Hiroki Nakayama , Kubo Takahiro , Jun Suzuki

Text-to-SQL (Text2SQL) aims to map natural language questions to executable SQL queries. Although large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress, current approaches struggle with poor transferability to open-source LLMs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Shuai Lyu , Haoran Luo , Ripeng Li , Zhonghong Ou , Jiangfeng Sun , Yang Qin , Xiaoran Shang , Meina Song , Yifan Zhu

Text-to-SQL translation enables non-expert users to query relational databases using natural language, with applications in education and business intelligence. This study evaluates three lightweight transformer models - T5-Small,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chirag Seth , Utkarsh Singh

Relational structures such as schema linking and schema encoding have been validated as a key component to qualitatively translating natural language into SQL queries. However, introducing these structural relations comes with prices: they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiexing Qi , Jingyao Tang , Ziwei He , Xiangpeng Wan , Yu Cheng , Chenghu Zhou , Xinbing Wang , Quanshi Zhang , Zhouhan Lin

The task of text-to-SQL aims to convert a natural language question into its corresponding SQL query within the context of relational tables. Existing text-to-SQL parsers generate a "plausible" SQL query for an arbitrary user question,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bing Wang , Yan Gao , Zhoujun Li , Jian-Guang Lou

We consider the problem of neural semantic parsing, which translates natural language questions into executable SQL queries. We introduce a new mechanism, execution guidance, to leverage the semantics of SQL. It detects and excludes faulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Chenglong Wang , Kedar Tatwawadi , Marc Brockschmidt , Po-Sen Huang , Yi Mao , Oleksandr Polozov , Rishabh Singh

Recently, context-dependent text-to-SQL semantic parsing which translates natural language into SQL in an interaction process has attracted a lot of attention. Previous works leverage context-dependence information either from interaction…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yanzhao Zheng , Haibin Wang , Baohua Dong , Xingjun Wang , Changshan Li

Generating queries corresponding to natural language questions is a long standing problem. Traditional methods lack language flexibility, while newer sequence-to-sequence models require large amount of data. Schema-agnostic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Amol Kelkar , Nachiketa Rajpurohit , Utkarsh Mittal , Peter Relan

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is an effective method for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) on downstream tasks. However, variability in training data can hinder a model's ability to generalize across domains. This paper studies the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Davood Rafiei , Morgan Lindsay Heisler , Weiwei Zhang , Mohammadreza Pourreza , Yong Zhang

This paper describes progress towards making a Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) Frontend that works for many languages and can be easily extended to new languages. We take a Machine Translation (MT) inspired approach to constructing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alistair Conkie , Andrew Finch

Explaining the decisions of AI has become vital for fostering appropriate user trust in these systems. This paper investigates explanations for a structured prediction task called ``text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing'', which translates a natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Daking Rai , Rydia R. Weiland , Kayla Margaret Gabriella Herrera , Tyler H. Shaw , Ziyu Yao

Artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) are increasingly being used in customer service to interact with users and answer their questions. The goal of this systematic review is to examine existing research on the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Malak Mashaabi , Areej Alotaibi , Hala Qudaih , Raghad Alnashwan , Hend Al-Khalifa

Text-to-SQL, which translates a natural language question into an SQL query, has advanced with in-context learning of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing methods show little improvement in performance compared to randomly chosen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jihyung Lee , Jin-Seop Lee , Jaehoon Lee , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

In recent years, the task of text-to-SQL translation, which converts natural language questions into executable SQL queries, has gained significant attention for its potential to democratize data access. Despite its promise, challenges such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Adrián Bazaga , Pietro Liò , Gos Micklem

Temporal Logic (TL) can be used to rigorously specify complex high-level specification for systems in many engineering applications. The translation between natural language (NL) and TL has been under-explored due to the lack of dataset and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yongchao Chen , Rujul Gandhi , Yang Zhang , Chuchu Fan