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Large language models (LLMs) know little about enterprise database tables in the private data ecosystem, which substantially differ from web text in structure and content. As LLMs' performance is tied to their training data, a crucial…

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This paper presents an open source methodology for allowing users to query structured non textual datasets through natural language Unlike Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG which struggles with numerical and highly structured information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hontan Valentin-Micu , Bunea Andrei-Alexandru , Tantaroudas Nikolaos Dimitrios , Popovici Dan-Matei

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

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) tasks, yet most NL2SQL systems continue to rely on the autoregressive (AR) paradigm. The highly structured nature of SQL makes…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peixian Ma , Xialie Zhuang , Jiantao Tan , Changlun Li , Ruirui Chen , Chengwei Qin

Multiple lines of research have developed Natural Language (NL) interfaces for formulating database queries. We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a highly detailed form of the answers in NL. The answers that we present are…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Amir Gilad

Traditional query optimization relies on cost-based optimizers that estimate execution cost (e.g., runtime, memory, and I/O) using predefined heuristics and statistical models. Improving these heuristics requires substantial engineering…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mehmet Hamza Erol , Xiangpeng Hao , Federico Bianchi , Ciro Greco , Jacopo Tagliabue , James Zou

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language queries into SQL statements, which is practical as it enables anyone to easily retrieve the desired information from databases. Recently, many existing approaches tackle this problem with Large…

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

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has accelerated the long-standing goal of enabling natural language querying over complex, hybrid databases. Yet, this ambition exposes a dual challenge: reasoning jointly over structured,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Aymane Hassini

Enterprise search systems often struggle to retrieve accurate, domain-specific information due to semantic mismatches and overlapping terminologies. These issues can degrade the performance of downstream applications such as knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hansa Meghwani , Amit Agarwal , Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Srikant Panda

Query understanding is essential in modern relevance systems, where user queries are often short, ambiguous, and highly context-dependent. Traditional approaches often rely on multiple task-specific Named Entity Recognition models to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Ping Liu , Jianqiang Shen , Qianqi Shen , Chunnan Yao , Kevin Kao , Dan Xu , Rajat Arora , Baofen Zheng , Caleb Johnson , Liangjie Hong , Jingwei Wu , Wenjing Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but their varying capabilities and costs pose challenges in practical applications. LLM routing addresses this by dynamically selecting the most suitable LLM for…

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Search queries with superlatives (e.g., best, most popular) require comparing candidates across multiple dimensions, demanding linguistic understanding and domain knowledge. We show that LLMs can uncover latent intent behind these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yilun Zhu , Nikhita Vedula , Shervin Malmasi

Multi-turn conversations with an Enterprise AI Assistant can be challenging due to conversational dependencies in questions, leading to ambiguities and errors. To address this, we propose an NLU-NLG framework for ambiguity detection and…

Enterprise workloads are dominated by deterministic, structured, and knowledge-dependent tasks operating under strict cost, latency, and reliability constraints. While these are often addressed through large language model (LLM) deployment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kuldeep Singh , Anson Bastos , Isaiah Onando Mulang'

Efficient knowledge management plays a pivotal role in augmenting both the operational efficiency and the innovative capacity of businesses and organizations. By indexing knowledge through vectorization, a variety of knowledge retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Feihu Jiang , Chuan Qin , Kaichun Yao , Chuyu Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

Modern search engines are built on a stack of different components, including query understanding, retrieval, multi-stage ranking, and question answering, among others. These components are often optimized and deployed independently. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Furu Wei

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

Ontological queries are evaluated against a knowledge base consisting of an extensional database and an ontology (i.e., a set of logical assertions and constraints which derive new intensional knowledge from the extensional database),…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georg Gottlob , Giorgio Orsi , Andreas Pieris