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Relational data exchange is the problem of translating relational data from a source schema into a target schema, according to a specification of the relationship between the source data and the target data. One of the basic issues is how…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Andre Hernich

We present an approach to rapidly and easily build natural language interfaces to databases for new domains, whose performance improves over time based on user feedback, and requires minimal intervention. To achieve this, we adapt neural…

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Distributed heterogeneous data sources need to be queried uniformly using global schema. Query on global schema is reformulated so that it can be executed on local data sources. Constraints in global schema and mappings are used for source…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-04-14 Ahmad Kamran Malik , Muhammad Abdul Qadir , Nadeem Iftikhar , Muhammad Usman

The existing Text-to-SQL models suffer from a shortage of training data, inhibiting their ability to fully facilitate the applications of SQL queries in new domains. To address this challenge, various data synthesis techniques have been…

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

Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language queries into SQL statements. Existing methods typically follow a pipeline of pre-processing, schema linking, candidate SQL generation, SQL alignment, and target SQL selection. However, these…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qin Wang , Youhuan Li , Suixi Lin , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li , Peng Peng , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang

Whereas the availability of data has seen a manyfold increase in past years, its value can be only shown if the data variety is effectively tackled ---one of the prominent Big Data challenges. The lack of data interoperability limits the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Mohamed Nadjib Mami , Damien Graux , Harsh Thakkar , Simon Scerri , Sören Auer , Jens Lehmann

This paper introduces a novel approach to schema inference as an on-demand function integrated directly within a DBMS, targeting NoSQL databases where schema flexibility can create challenges. Unlike previous methods relying on external…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Calvin Dani , Shiva Jahangiri , Thomas Hütter

Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-the-art methods do not achieve optimal results, therefore,…

In text-to-SQL task, seq-to-seq models often lead to sub-optimal performance due to limitations in their architecture. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach that adapts transformer-based seq-to-seq model to robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Kuan Xu , Yongbo Wang , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen , Yang Dong

Knowledge base exchange is an important problem in the area of data exchange and knowledge representation, where one is interested in exchanging information between a source and a target knowledge base connected through a mapping. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-03 Marcelo Arenas , Elena Botoeva , Diego Calvanese , Vladislav Ryzhikov

This paper concerns with the conversion of a Spoken English Language Query into SQL for retrieving data from RDBMS. A User submits a query as speech signal through the user interface and gets the result of the query in the text format. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Sachin Kumar , Ashish Kumar , Pinaki Mitra , Girish Sundaram

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown useful applications in a variety of tasks, including data wrangling. In this paper, we investigate the use of an off-the-shelf LLM for schema matching. Our objective is to identify semantic…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Marcel Parciak , Brecht Vandevoort , Frank Neven , Liesbet M. Peeters , Stijn Vansummeren

Text-to-SQL translates natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling intuitive database access for non-experts. While large language models achieve strong performance on Text-to-SQL with prompting, they still struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhao Tan , Xiping Liu , Qing Shu , Qizhi Wan , Dexi Liu , Changxuan Wan

Recent advancements in Text-to-SQL have pushed database management systems towards greater democratization of data access. Today's language models are at the core of these advancements. They enable impressive Text-to-SQL generation as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Karime Maamari , Amine Mhedhbi

Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into executable SQL queries, and recent progress with large language models (LLMs) has driven substantial improvements in this task. Schema linking remains a critical component in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 AmirHossein Safdarian , Milad Mohammadi , Ehsan Jahanbakhsh , Mona Shahamat Naderi , Heshaam Faili

Text style transfer without parallel data has achieved some practical success. However, in the scenario where less data is available, these methods may yield poor performance. In this paper, we examine domain adaptation for text style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Dianqi Li , Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chris Brockett , Ming-Ting Sun , Bill Dolan

Recent years have seen great success in the use of neural seq2seq models on the text-to-SQL task. However, little work has paid attention to how these models generalize to realistic unseen data, which naturally raises a question: does this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Shuaichen Chang , Pengfei Liu , Yun Tang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Recently, Text-to-SQL for multi-turn dialogue has attracted great interest. Here, the user input of the current turn is parsed into the corresponding SQL query of the appropriate database, given all previous dialogue history. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Hanqi Li , Ruisheng Cao , Da Ma , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

The goal of database question answering is to enable natural language querying of real-life relational databases in diverse application domains. Recently, large-scale datasets such as Spider and WikiSQL facilitated novel modeling techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Chia-Hsuan Lee , Oleksandr Polozov , Matthew Richardson

Concept shift occurs when the distribution of labels conditioned on the features changes between domains, which can make even a well-tuned ML model miscalibrated on a new domain. Identifying these shifted features provides unique insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruiqi Lyu , Alistair Turcan , Bryan Wilder