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The development of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLIDBs) has been greatly advanced by the advent of large language models (LLMs), which provide an intuitive way to translate natural language (NL) questions into Structured Query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianshu Wang , Xiaoyang Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hao Wang , Zhenyu Zeng

Large Language Models have recently shown impressive capabilities in reasoning and code generation, making them promising tools for natural language interfaces to relational databases. However, existing approaches often fail to generalize…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wenjia Jiang , Yiwei Wang , Boyan Han , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chi Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language interaction with data. The "holy grail" of data analytics is to build autonomous Data Agents that can self-drive complex data analysis workflows. However, current…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Boyan Li , Yiran Peng , Yupeng Xie , Sirong Lu , Yizhang Zhu , Xing Mu , Xinyu Liu , Yuyu Luo

Database systems have to cater to the growing demands of the information age. The growth of the new age information retrieval powerhouses like search engines has thrown a challenge to the data management community to come up with novel…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Gowri Shankar Ramaswamy , F Sagayaraj Francis

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

Advances in large language models have accelerated progress in text-to-SQL, methods for converting natural language queries into valid SQL queries. A key bottleneck for developing generalizable text-to-SQL models is the lack of large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Cornelius Wolff , Daniel Gomm , Madelon Hulsebos

Querying, conversing, and controlling search and information-seeking interfaces using natural language are fast becoming ubiquitous with the rise and adoption of large-language models (LLM). In this position paper, we describe a generic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Avishek Anand , Venktesh V , Abhijit Anand , Vinay Setty

Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are powerful because they are able to optimize and answer queries against any relational database. A natural language interface (NLI) for a database, on the other hand, is tailored to support…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Wenlu Wang , Yingtao Tian , Hongyu Xiong , Haixun Wang , Wei-Shinn Ku

Relational databases excel at structured data analysis, but real-world queries increasingly require capabilities beyond standard SQL, such as semantically matching entities across inconsistent names, extracting information not explicitly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yin Lin , Tianjing Zeng , Zhongjun Ding , Rong Zhu , Bolin Ding , H. V. Jagadish , Jingren Zhou

Unstructured data is pervasive, but analytical queries demand structured representations, creating a significant extraction challenge. Existing methods like RAG lack schema awareness and struggle with cross-document alignment, leading to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Daren Chao , Kaiwen Chen , Naiqing Guan , Nick Koudas

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

While most conversational agents are grounded on either free-text or structured knowledge, many knowledge corpora consist of hybrid sources. This paper presents the first conversational agent that supports the full generality of hybrid data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shicheng Liu , Jialiang Xu , Wesley Tjangnaka , Sina J. Semnani , Chen Jie Yu , Monica S. Lam

Query rewriting is pivotal for enhancing dense retrieval, yet current methods demand large-scale supervised data or suffer from inefficient reinforcement learning (RL) exploration. In this work, we first establish that guiding Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Teng Wang , Hailei Gong , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang

Understanding large-scale, complex software systems is a major challenge for developers, who spend a significant portion of their time on program comprehension. Traditional tools such as static visualizations and reverse engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew

Current multi-agent systems (MAS) frameworks often rely on manually designed and static collaboration graph structures, limiting adaptability and performance. To address these limitations, we propose DynaSwarm, a dynamic framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Hui Yi Leong , Yuqing Wu

Querying tables with unstructured data is challenging due to the presence of text (or image), either embedded in the table or in external paragraphs, which traditional SQL struggles to process, especially for tasks requiring semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Rohit Khoja , Devanshu Gupta , Yanjie Fu , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced Text-to-SQL, yet existing solutions still fall short of system-level reliability. The limitation is not merely in individual modules -- e.g., schema linking, reasoning, and verification -- but more…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Boyan Li , Chong Chen , Zhujun Xue , Yinan Mei , Yuyu Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive generation capabilities, but they suffer from hallucinations when solely relying on their internal knowledge, especially when answering questions that require less commonly known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Tong Niu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

Multi-step agentic retrieval systems based on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex information search tasks. However, these systems still face significant challenges in practical applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Chuzhan Hao , Wenfeng Feng , Yuewei Zhang , Hao Wang

Data discovery and preparation remain persistent bottlenecks in the data management lifecycle, especially when user intent is vague, evolving, or difficult to operationalize. The Pneuma Project introduces Pneuma-Seeker, a system that helps…

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