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Text-to-SQL semantic parsing has made significant progress in recent years, with various models demonstrating impressive performance on the challenging Spider benchmark. However, it has also been shown that these models often struggle to…

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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

The previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) method achieved a remarkable execution accuracy on the Spider dataset, which is one of the largest and most diverse datasets in the Text-to-SQL domain. However, during our reproduction of the business…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Guanghu Sui , Zhishuai Li , Ziyue Li , Sun Yang , Jingqing Ruan , Hangyu Mao , Rui Zhao

Converting natural language queries into SQL queries is a crucial challenge in both industry and academia, aiming to increase access to databases and large-scale applications. This work examines how in-context learning and chain-of-thought…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Saumya Chaturvedi , Aman Chadha , Laurent Bindschaedler

Neural text-to-SQL models have achieved remarkable performance in translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, recent studies reveal that text-to-SQL models are vulnerable to task-specific perturbations. Previous…

Recent divide-and-conquer reasoning approaches, particularly those based on Chain-of-Thought (CoT), have substantially improved the Text-to-SQL capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, when applied to complex enterprise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zhifeng Hao , Qibin Song , Ruichu Cai , Boyan Xu

When translating natural language questions into SQL queries to answer questions from a database, contemporary semantic parsing models struggle to generalize to unseen database schemas. The generalization challenge lies in (a) encoding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Bailin Wang , Richard Shin , Xiaodong Liu , Oleksandr Polozov , Matthew Richardson

Text-to-SQL is the task of translating natural language queries into executable SQL for a given database, enabling non-expert users to access structured data without writing SQL manually. Despite rapid advances driven by large language…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Minh Tam Pham , Trinh Pham , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Although multi-agent collaborative Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in the Text-to-SQL task, their performance is still constrained by various factors. These factors include the incompleteness of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xiangjin Xie , Guangwei Xu , Lingyan Zhao , Ruijie Guo

Text-to-SQL converts natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to access relational databases for analytics and intelligent data services. In real-world scenarios, performance is often constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Tianhao Qiu , Xiaojun Chen

Most modern Text2SQL systems prompt large language models (LLMs) with entire schemas -- mostly column information -- alongside the user's question. While effective on small databases, this approach fails on real-world schemas that exceed…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Thanh Dat Hoang , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

In recent years,Text-to-SQL, the problem of automatically converting questions posed in natural language to formal SQL queries, has emerged as an important problem at the intersection of natural language processing and data management…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Ke Shen , Mayank Kejriwal

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

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 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

Text-to-SQL models allow users to interact with a database more easily by generating executable SQL statements from natural-language questions. Despite recent successes on simpler databases and questions, current Text-to-SQL methods still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Heng Hao , Wenjun Hu , Oxana Verkholyak , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Baruch Gutow , Sima Didari , Masoud Faraki , Hankyu Moon , Seungjai Min

Text-to-SQL generation aims to translate natural language questions into SQL statements. In Text-to-SQL based on large language models, schema linking is a widely adopted strategy to streamline the input for LLMs by selecting only relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zhenbiao Cao , Yuanlei Zheng , Zhihao Fan , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiang Bai

Most deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL generation are limited to the WikiSQL dataset, which only supports very simple queries over a single table. We focus on the Spider dataset, a complex and cross-domain text-to-SQL task, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Dongjun Lee

We present a neural approach called IRNet for complex and cross-domain Text-to-SQL. IRNet aims to address two challenges: 1) the mismatch between intents expressed in natural language (NL) and the implementation details in SQL; 2) the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jiaqi Guo , Zecheng Zhan , Yan Gao , Yan Xiao , Jian-Guang Lou , Ting Liu , Dongmei Zhang

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks to translate text descriptions into SQL queries. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchmarks, existing text-to-SQL models typically rely on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yujian Gan , Xinyun Chen , Qiuping Huang , Matthew Purver , John R. Woodward , Jinxia Xie , Pengsheng Huang