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To translate natural language questions into executable database queries, most approaches rely on a fully annotated training set. Annotating a large dataset with queries is difficult as it requires query-language expertise. We reduce this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Irina Saparina , Anton Osokin

Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

Translating natural language questions into SQL queries, known as text-to-SQL, is a long-standing research problem. Effective text-to-SQL synthesis can become very challenging due to (i) the extensive size of database catalogs (descriptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Shayan Talaei , Mohammadreza Pourreza , Yu-Chen Chang , Azalia Mirhoseini , Amin Saberi

Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments. The primary limitation lies in their reliance on static schema representations, which fails to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bowen Cao , Weibin Liao , Yushi Sun , Dong Fang , Haitao Li , Wai Lam

Modern machine learning relies on datasets to develop and validate research ideas. Given the growth of publicly available data, finding the right dataset to use is increasingly difficult. Any research question imposes explicit and implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vijay Viswanathan , Luyu Gao , Tongshuang Wu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with complex Text-to-SQL queries that demand both sophisticated mathematical reasoning and intricate schema navigation. Existing methods often tackle these challenges in isolation, creating a fractured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xutao Mao , Tao Liu , Hongying Zan

Previous text-to-SQL datasets and systems have primarily focused on user questions with clear intentions that can be answered. However, real user questions can often be ambiguous with multiple interpretations or unanswerable due to a lack…

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

Large-scale semantic parsing datasets annotated with logical forms have enabled major advances in supervised approaches. But can richer supervision help even more? To explore the utility of fine-grained, lexical-level supervision, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tianze Shi , Chen Zhao , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Hal Daumé , Lillian Lee

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have propelled research in natural language interfaces to databases. However, most state-of-the-art text-to-SQL systems still depend on complex, multi-stage pipelines. This work proposes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Fernando Granado , Roberto Lotufo , Jayr Pereira

Analytical reasoning is an essential and challenging task that requires a system to analyze a scenario involving a set of particular circumstances and perform reasoning over it to make conclusions. In this paper, we study the challenge of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Wanjun Zhong , Siyuan Wang , Duyu Tang , Zenan Xu , Daya Guo , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Ming Zhou , Nan Duan

We introduce a large scale MAchine Reading COmprehension dataset, which we name MS MARCO. The dataset comprises of 1,010,916 anonymized questions---sampled from Bing's search query logs---each with a human generated answer and 182,669…

This study presents AraSpider, the first Arabic version of the Spider dataset, aimed at improving natural language processing (NLP) in the Arabic-speaking community. Four multilingual translation models were tested for their effectiveness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ahmed Heakl , Youssef Mohamed , Ahmed B. Zaky

Recently, there has been increasing interest in synthesizing data to improve downstream text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we first examined the existing synthesized datasets and discovered that state-of-the-art text-to-SQL algorithms did…

Large language models can already query databases, yet most existing systems remain reactive: they rely on explicit user prompts and do not actively explore data. We introduce DAR (Data Agnostic Researcher), a multi-agent system that…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ostap Vykhopen , Viktoria Skorik , Maksym Tereshchenko , Veronika Solopova

Most available semantic parsing datasets, comprising of pairs of natural utterances and logical forms, were collected solely for the purpose of training and evaluation of natural language understanding systems. As a result, they do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Moshe Hazoom , Vibhor Malik , Ben Bogin

This paper introduces DuReader, a new large-scale, open-domain Chinese ma- chine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset, designed to address real-world MRC. DuReader has three advantages over previous MRC datasets: (1) data sources: questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei He , Kai Liu , Jing Liu , Yajuan Lyu , Shiqi Zhao , Xinyan Xiao , Yuan Liu , Yizhong Wang , Hua Wu , Qiaoqiao She , Xuan Liu , Tian Wu , Haifeng Wang

In the era of large language models, Text-to-SQL, as a natural language interface for databases, is playing an increasingly important role. The sota Text-to-SQL models have achieved impressive accuracy, but their performance critically…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yafeng Nan , Haifeng Sun , Zirui Zhuang , Qi Qi , Guojun Chu , Jianxin Liao , Dan Pei , Jingyu Wang

Research in question answering datasets and models has gained a lot of attention in the research community. Many of them release their own question answering datasets as well as the models. There is tremendous progress that we have seen in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Andreas Chandra , Affandy Fahrizain , Ibrahim , Simon Willyanto Laufried

In this paper, we present DuReader_retrieval, a large-scale Chinese dataset for passage retrieval. DuReader_retrieval contains more than 90K queries and over 8M unique passages from a commercial search engine. To alleviate the shortcomings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yifu Qiu , Hongyu Li , Yingqi Qu , Ying Chen , Qiaoqiao She , Jing Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang