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Commonsense knowledge acquisition and reasoning have long been a core artificial intelligence problem. However, in the past, there has been a lack of scalable methods to collect commonsense knowledge. In this paper, we propose to develop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hongming Zhang , Xin Liu , Haojie Pan , Haowen Ke , Jiefu Ou , Tianqing Fang , Yangqiu Song

Natural Language to SQL systems (NL-to-SQL) have recently shown a significant increase in accuracy for natural language to SQL query translation. This improvement is due to the emergence of transformer-based language models, and the…

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

Academic researchers often need to face with a large collection of research papers in the literature. This problem may be even worse for postgraduate students who are new to a field and may not know where to start. To address this problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Leonard K. M. Poon , Nevin L. Zhang

We present two new large-scale datasets aimed at evaluating systems designed to comprehend a natural language query and extract its answer from a large corpus of text. The Quasar-S dataset consists of 37000 cloze-style (fill-in-the-gap)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bhuwan Dhingra , Kathryn Mazaitis , William W. Cohen

The ability to recognize analogies is fundamental to human cognition. Existing benchmarks to test word analogy do not reveal the underneath process of analogical reasoning of neural models. Holding the belief that models capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jiangjie Chen , Rui Xu , Ziquan Fu , Wei Shi , Zhongqiao Li , Xinbo Zhang , Changzhi Sun , Lei Li , Yanghua Xiao , Hao Zhou

Speech-based inputs have been gaining significant momentum with the popularity of smartphones and tablets in our daily lives, since voice is the most easiest and efficient way for human-computer interaction. This paper works towards…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yuanfeng Song , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Xuefang Zhao , Di Jiang

We present a novel natural language query interface, the AggChecker, aimed at text summaries of relational data sets. The tool focuses on natural language claims that translate into an SQL query and a claimed query result. Similar in spirit…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Saehan Jo , Immanuel Trummer , Weicheng Yu , Daniel Liu , Xuezhi Wang , Cong Yu , Niyati Mehta

Tables are often created with hierarchies, but existing works on table reasoning mainly focus on flat tables and neglect hierarchical tables. Hierarchical tables challenge existing methods by hierarchical indexing, as well as implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhoujun Cheng , Haoyu Dong , Zhiruo Wang , Ran Jia , Jiaqi Guo , Yan Gao , Shi Han , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

We publicly release a new large-scale dataset, called SearchQA, for machine comprehension, or question-answering. Unlike recently released datasets, such as DeepMind CNN/DailyMail and SQuAD, the proposed SearchQA was constructed to reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Matthew Dunn , Levent Sagun , Mike Higgins , V. Ugur Guney , Volkan Cirik , Kyunghyun Cho

Existing text-to-SQL research only considers complete questions as the input, but lay-users might strive to formulate a complete question. To build a smarter natural language interface to database systems (NLIDB) that also processes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Naihao Deng , Shuaichen Chang , Peng Shi , Tao Yu , Rui Zhang

Advances in large language models have accelerated progress in text-to-SQL, methods for converting natural language queries into valid SQL queries. A key bottleneck for developing generalizable text-to-SQL models is the lack of large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Cornelius Wolff , Daniel Gomm , Madelon Hulsebos

Tabular data analysis is crucial in various fields, and large language models show promise in this area. However, current research mostly focuses on rudimentary tasks like Text2SQL and TableQA, neglecting advanced analysis like forecasting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Rui Ding , Lun Du , Yan Gao , Ran Jia , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Zejian Yuan , Dongmei Zhang

Machine reading is a fundamental task for testing the capability of natural language understanding, which is closely related to human cognition in many aspects. With the rising of deep learning techniques, algorithmic models rival human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Jian Liu , Leyang Cui , Hanmeng Liu , Dandan Huang , Yile Wang , Yue Zhang

There are many recent advanced developments for the Text-to-SQL task, where the Picard model is one of the the top performing models as measured by the Spider dataset competition. However, bringing Text-to-SQL systems to realistic use-cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Irene Manotas , Octavian Popescu , Ngoc Phuoc An Vo , Vadim Sheinin

In the domain of semantic parsing, significant progress has been achieved in Text-to-SQL and question-answering tasks, both of which focus on extracting information from data sources in their native formats. However, the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Saleh Almohaimeed , Shenyang Liu , May Alsofyani , Saad Almohaimeed , Liqiang Wang

The rapid advancement of large language models has fundamentally shifted the bottleneck in AI development from computational power to data availability-with countless valuable datasets remaining hidden across specialized repositories,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Keyu Li , Mohan Jiang , Dayuan Fu , Yunze Wu , Xiangkun Hu , Dequan Wang , Pengfei Liu

We introduce SciTaRC, an expert-authored benchmark of questions about tabular data in scientific papers requiring both deep language reasoning and complex computation. We show that current state-of-the-art AI models fail on at least 23% of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hexuan Wang , Yaxuan Ren , Srikar Bommireddypalli , Shuxian Chen , Adarsh Prabhudesai , Rongkun Zhou , Elina Baral , Philipp Koehn

The potential social harms that large language models pose, such as generating offensive content and reinforcing biases, are steeply rising. Existing works focus on coping with this concern while interacting with ill-intentioned users, such…

Multilingual question answering tasks typically assume answers exist in the same language as the question. Yet in practice, many languages face both information scarcity -- where languages have few reference articles -- and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Akari Asai , Jungo Kasai , Jonathan H. Clark , Kenton Lee , Eunsol Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi