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To access data stored in relational databases, users need to understand the database schema and write a query using a query language such as SQL. To simplify this task, text-to-SQL models attempt to translate a user's natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Amol Kelkar , Rohan Relan , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Saurabh Vaichal , Chandra Khatri , Peter Relan

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

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

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

The text-to-SQL task aims to convert natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL) without bias. Recently, text-to-SQL methods based on large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. The core of mainstream…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zeshun You , Jiebin Yao , Dong Cheng , Zhiwei Wen , Zhiliang Lu , Xianyi Shen

Recently pre-training models have significantly improved the performance of various NLP tasks by leveraging large-scale text corpora to improve the contextual representation ability of the neural network. The large pre-training language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Bowen Qin , Lihan Wang , Binyuan Hui , Ruiying Geng , Zheng Cao , Min Yang , Jian Sun , Yongbin Li

We present Spider, a large-scale, complex and cross-domain semantic parsing and text-to-SQL dataset annotated by 11 college students. It consists of 10,181 questions and 5,693 unique complex SQL queries on 200 databases with multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Tao Yu , Rui Zhang , Kai Yang , Michihiro Yasunaga , Dongxu Wang , Zifan Li , James Ma , Irene Li , Qingning Yao , Shanelle Roman , Zilin Zhang , Dragomir Radev

Recent In-Context Learning based methods have achieved remarkable success in Text-to-SQL task. However, there is still a large gap between the performance of these models and human performance on datasets with complex database schema and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Wenxuan Xie , Gaochen Wu , Bowen Zhou

Text-to-SQL is a subtask in semantic parsing that has seen rapid progress with the evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, LLMs face challenges due to hallucination issues and a lack of domain-specific database knowledge(such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Xingyu Ma , Xin Tian , Lingxiang Wu , Xuepeng Wang , Xueming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Text-to-SQL parsers typically struggle with databases unseen during the train time. Adapting parsers to new databases is a challenging problem due to the lack of natural language queries in the new schemas. We present ReFill, a framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Abhijeet Awasthi , Ashutosh Sathe , Sunita Sarawagi

Schema linking is a critical step in Text-to-SQL task, aiming to accurately predict the table names and column names required for the SQL query based on the given question. However, current fine-tuning approaches for schema linking models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Wuzhenghong Wen , Su Pan , yuwei Sun

Despite remarkable progress in text-to-SQL semantic parsing in recent years, the performance of existing parsers is still far from perfect. Specifically, modern text-to-SQL parsers based on deep learning are often over-confident, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shijie Chen , Ziru Chen , Huan Sun , Yu Su

Existing text-to-SQL semantic parsers are typically designed for particular settings such as handling queries that span multiple tables, domains or turns which makes them ineffective when applied to different settings. We present UniSAr…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Longxu Dou , Yan Gao , Mingyang Pan , Dingzirui Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dechen Zhan , Jian-Guang Lou

In this work, we focus on two crucial components in the cross-domain text-to-SQL semantic parsing task: schema linking and value filling. To encourage the model to learn better encoding ability, we propose a column selection auxiliary task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Peng Shi , Tao Yu , Patrick Ng , Zhiguo Wang

The task of multi-turn text-to-SQL semantic parsing aims to translate natural language utterances in an interaction into SQL queries in order to answer them using a database which normally contains multiple table schemas. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Run-Ze Wang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Jing-Bo Zhou , Yu Hu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in table Question Answering (Table QA). However, extending these capabilities to multi-table QA remains challenging due to unreliable schema linking across complex tables. Existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xixi Wang , Miguel Costa , Jordanka Kovaceva , Shuai Wang , Francisco C. Pereira

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved Text-to-SQL performance for single-table queries. But, it remains challenging in multi-table databases due to complex schema and relational operations. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Poojah Ganesan , Rajat Aayush Jha , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Context-dependent text-to-SQL is the task of translating multi-turn questions into database-related SQL queries. Existing methods typically focus on making full use of history context or previously predicted SQL for currently SQL parsing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dongling Xiao , Linzheng Chai , Qian-Wen Zhang , Zhao Yan , Zhoujun Li , Yunbo Cao

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced text-to-SQL systems. However, most LLM-based methods often narrowly focus on SQL generation, neglecting the complexities of real-world conversational queries.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziming Guo , Chao Ma , Yinggang Sun , Tiancheng Zhao , Guangyao Wang , Hai Huang

Table learning, which lies at the intersection of machine learning and modern database systems, has recently attracted growing attention. However, existing table learning frameworks typically require explicit data export and extensive…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Feiyang Chen , Ken Zhong , Aoqian Zhang , Zheng Wang , Li Pan , Jianhua Li