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As the use of technology increases and data analysis becomes integral in many businesses, the ability to quickly access and interpret data has become more important than ever. Information retrieval technologies are being utilized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Aliaksei Vertsel , Mikhail Rumiantsau

The evolution of AI systems toward agentic operation and context-aware retrieval necessitates transforming unstructured text into structured formats like tables, knowledge graphs, and charts. While such conversions enable critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zheye Deng , Chunkit Chan , Tianshi Zheng , Wei Fan , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song

Relational databases (RDBs) are widely used by corporations and governments to store multiple related tables. Their relational schemas pose unique challenges to synthetic data generation for privacy-preserving data sharing, e.g., for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiayu Li , Zilong Zhao , Milad Abdollahzadeh , Biplab Sikdar , Y. C. Tay

The nuclear industry possesses a wealth of valuable information locked away in unstructured text data. This data, however, is not readily usable for advanced Large Language Model (LLM) applications that require clean, structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Muhammad Anwar , Daniel Lau , Mishca de Costa , Issam Hammad

This paper presents a novel AI-powered framework designed to streamline database management and query optimization for PostgreSQL systems. Structured in three phases: Natural Language to SQL Translation, Query Execution and Analysis, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kushagra Parashar , Ajay Dev , Aditya Kumar , Darpan Khatri

In this paper, we propose Multi-Modal Databases (MMDBs), which is a new class of database systems that can seamlessly query text and tables using SQL. To enable seamless querying of textual data using SQL in an MMDB, we propose to extend…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Matthias Urban , Carsten Binnig

Automated fact-checking benchmarks have largely ignored the challenge of verifying claims against real-world, high-volume structured data, instead focusing on small, curated tables. We introduce a new large-scale, multilingual dataset to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jacob Devasier , Akshith Putta , Qing Wang , Alankrit Moses , Chengkai Li

Relational databases play a central role in many information systems. Their schema contains structural (e.g. tables and columns) and behavioral (e.g. stored procedures or views) entity descriptions. Then, just like for ``normal'' software,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Anne Etien , Nicolas Anquetil

Relational databases (RDBs) have become the industry standard for storing massive and heterogeneous data. However, despite the widespread use of RDBs across various fields, the inherent structure of relational databases hinders their…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ning Li , Kounianhua Du , Han Zhang , Quan Gan , Minjie Wang , David Wipf , Weinan Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are advancing rapidly. Such models have demonstrated strong capabilities in learning from large-scale (unstructured) text data and answering user queries. Users do not need to be experts in structured query…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jianzhong Qi , Zuqing Li , Egemen Tanin

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential for applications such as text summarization, sentiment analysis, and automated question-answering. Recently, LLMs have also been integrated into relational database management systems to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kerem Akillioglu , Anurag Chakraborty , Sairaj Voruganti , M. Tamer Özsu

NoSQL databases support semi-structured data, typically modeled as JSON. They also provide limited (but expanding) query languages. Their idiomatic, non-SQL language constructs, the many variations, and the lack of formal semantics inhibit…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Kian Win Ong , Yannis Papakonstantinou , Romain Vernoux

Document databases are increasingly popular in various applications, but their queries are challenging to write due to the flexible and complex data model underlying document databases. This paper presents a synthesis technique that aims to…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Qikang Liu , Yang He , Yanwen Cai , Byeongguk Kwak , Yuepeng Wang

Synthetic tabular data generation has received increasing attention in recent years, particularly with the emergence of foundation models for tabular data. The breakthrough success of TabPFN (Hollmann et al.,2025), which leverages vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Hoppe , Astrid Franz , Lars Kleinemeier , Udo Göbel

The Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) technology provides non-expert users who are unfamiliar with databases the opportunity to use SQL for data analysis.Converting Natural Language to Business Intelligence (NL2BI) is a popular practical…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jinqing Lian , Xinyi Liu , Yingxia Shao , Yang Dong , Ming Wang , Zhang Wei , Tianqi Wan , Ming Dong , Hailin Yan

Data representation remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, particularly when adapting sequence-based architectures like Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) for structured tabular data. Existing methods often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kayvan Karim , Hani Ragab Hassen. Hadj Batatia

Tackling the information retrieval gap between non-technical database end-users and those with the knowledge of formal query languages has been an interesting area of data management and analytics research. The use of natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chantal Montgomery , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine

We consider the task of generating structured representations of text using large language models (LLMs). We focus on tables and mind maps as representative modalities. Tables are more organized way of representing data, while mind maps…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Parag Jain , Andreea Marzoca , Francesco Piccinno

Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) is a powerful strategy in computational drug discovery, utilizing three-dimensional protein structures to guide the design of molecules with improved binding affinity. However, capturing complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Long Xu , Yongcai Chen , Fengshuo Liu , Yuzhong Peng

Training effective Text-to-SQL models remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality, diverse, and structurally complex datasets. Existing methods either rely on limited human-annotated corpora, or synthesize datasets directly by…

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