English
Related papers

Related papers: Extractive Schema Linking for Text-to-SQL

200 papers

Exploring the generalization of a text-to-SQL parser is essential for a system to automatically adapt the real-world databases. Previous works provided investigations focusing on lexical diversity, including the influence of the synonym and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Jieyu Li , Lu Chen , Ruisheng Cao , Su Zhu , Hongshen Xu , Zhi Chen , Hanchong Zhang , Kai Yu

Recently Large Language Models (LLMs) have been proven to have strong abilities in various domains and tasks. We study the problem of prompt designing in the text-to-SQL task and attempt to improve the LLMs' reasoning ability when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Hanchong Zhang , Ruisheng Cao , Lu Chen , Hongshen Xu , Kai Yu

Translating natural language to SQL for data retrieval has become more accessible thanks to code generation LLMs. But how hard is it to generate SQL code? While databases can become unbounded in complexity, the complexity of queries is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yue Li , David Mimno , Unso Eun Seo Jo

In-Context Learning (ICL) enables transformer-based language models to adapt to new tasks by conditioning on demonstration examples. However, traditional example-driven in-context learning lacks explicit modules for knowledge retrieval and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Pan Chen , Shaohong Chen , Mark Wang , Shi Xuan Leong , Priscilla Fung , Varinia Bernales , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Text-to-SQL and Big Data are both extensively benchmarked fields, yet there is limited research that evaluates them jointly. In the real world, Text-to-SQL systems are often embedded with Big Data workflows, such as large-scale data…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Germán T. Eizaguirre , Lars Tissen , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with requests related to information retrieval and data manipulation that frequently arise in real-world scenarios under multiple conditions. In this paper, we demonstrate that leveraging tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jio Oh , Geon Heo , Seungjun Oh , Hyunjin Kim , JinYeong Bak , Jindong Wang , Xing Xie , Steven Euijong Whang

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

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to possess impressive capabilities in a variety of domains and tasks. We investigate the issue of prompt design in the multi-turn text-to-SQL task and attempt to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hanchong Zhang , Ruisheng Cao , Hongshen Xu , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Neural text-to-SQL models, which translate natural language questions (NLQs) into SQL queries given a database schema, have achieved remarkable performance. However, database schemas frequently evolve to meet new requirements. Such schema…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshu Zhang , Kun Qian , Siddhartha Sahai , Yuan Tian , Shaddy Garg , Huan Sun , Yunyao Li

Text-to-SQL, which maps natural language to SQL queries, has benefited greatly from recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs offer various paradigms for this task, including prompting and supervised fine-tuning (SFT), SFT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jinwang Song , Hongying Zan , Kunli Zhang , Lingling Mu , Yingjie Han , Haobo Hua , Min Peng

Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language (NL) questions into SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to interact with structured data. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results on the text-to-SQL task, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yue Gong , Chuan Lei , Xiao Qin , Kapil Vaidya , Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy , Tim Kraska

Structured data, prevalent in tables, databases, and knowledge graphs, poses a significant challenge in its representation. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), there has been a shift towards linearization-based methods, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yutong Shao , Ndapa Nakashole

Text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language instructions into executable SQLs, has gained increasing attention in recent years. In particular, Codex and ChatGPT have shown impressive results in this task. However, most of…

Relation extraction (RE) is the task of extracting relations between entities in text. Most RE methods extract relations from free-form running text and leave out other rich data sources, such as tables. We explore RE from the perspective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Arif Shahriar , Rohan Saha , Denilson Barbosa

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

Querying is one of the basic functionality expected from a database system. Query efficiency is adversely affected by increase in the number of participating tables. Also, querying based on syntax largely limits the gamut of queries a…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-04-08 Gowri Shankar Ramaswamy , F Sagayaraj Francis

We introduce SQL-Exchange, a framework for mapping SQL queries across different database schemas by preserving the source query structure while adapting domain-specific elements to align with the target schema. We investigate the conditions…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mohammadreza Daviran , Brian Lin , Davood Rafiei

The data-centric paradigm has emerged as a pivotal direction in artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing the role of high-quality training data. This shift is especially critical in the Text-to-SQL task, where the scarcity, limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Chang Xu , Tao Xie , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

Large language models (LLMs) excel in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, since LLMs can only incorporate new knowledge through training or supervised fine-tuning processes, they are unsuitable for applications that…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongyue Qin , Chen Luo , Zhengyang Wang , Haoming Jiang , Yizhou Sun

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref