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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

Translating Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) remains a critical bottleneck for democratization of data in enterprises. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini 2.5 and other LLMs have demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Anshul Solanki , Sanchit Latawa , Koushik Chakraborty , Navneet Kamboj

State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves into an important attribute of these datasets: the dialect of…

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In the era of large language models, Text-to-SQL, as a natural language interface for databases, is playing an increasingly important role. The sota Text-to-SQL models have achieved impressive accuracy, but their performance critically…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yafeng Nan , Haifeng Sun , Zirui Zhuang , Qi Qi , Guojun Chu , Jianxin Liao , Dan Pei , Jingyu Wang

Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data;…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yipeng Zhang , Chen Wang , Yuzhe Zhang , Jacky Jiang

Most of the world's languages and dialects are low-resource, and lack support in mainstream machine translation (MT) models. However, many of them have a closely-related high-resource language (HRL) neighbor, and differ in linguistically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Niyati Bafna , Emily Chang , Nathaniel R. Robinson , David R. Mortensen , Kenton Murray , David Yarowsky , Hale Sirin

Modern applications often manage time-varying data. Despite decades of research on temporal databases, which culminated in the addition of temporal data operations into the SQL:2011 standard, temporal data query and manipulation operations…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Simon Fowler , Vashti Galpin , James Cheney

Despite advances in large language model (LLM)-based natural language interfaces for databases, scaling to enterprise-level data catalogs remains an under-explored challenge. Prior works addressing this challenge rely on domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jeffrey Eben , Aitzaz Ahmad , Stephen Lau

Detecting structural similarity between queries is essential for selecting examples in in-context learning models. However, assessing structural similarity based solely on the natural language expressions of queries, without considering SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mohammadreza Pourreza , Davood Rafiei , Yuxi Feng , Raymond Li , Zhenan Fan , Weiwei Zhang

We present SQLova, the first Natural-language-to-SQL (NL2SQL) model to achieve human performance in WikiSQL dataset. We revisit and discuss diverse popular methods in NL2SQL literature, take a full advantage of BERT {Devlin et al., 2018)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wonseok Hwang , Jinyeong Yim , Seunghyun Park , Minjoon Seo

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized many fields, not only traditional natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Recently, research on applying LLMs to the database field has been booming, and as a typical…

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Standard-to-dialect machine translation remains challenging due to a persistent dialect gap in large language models and evaluation distortions inherent in n-gram metrics, which favor source copying over authentic dialect translation. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Keunhyeung Park , Seunguk Yu , Youngbin Kim

Addressing the mismatch between natural language descriptions and the corresponding SQL queries is a key challenge for text-to-SQL translation. To bridge this gap, we propose an SQL intermediate representation (IR) called Natural SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yujian Gan , Xinyun Chen , Jinxia Xie , Matthew Purver , John R. Woodward , John Drake , Qiaofu Zhang

This paper analyses language modeling in spoken dialogue systems for accessing a database. The use of several language models obtained by exploiting dialogue predictions gives better results than the use of a single model for the whole…

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In many use-cases, information is stored in text but not available in structured data. However, extracting data from natural language text to precisely fit a schema, and thus enable querying, is a challenging task. With the rise of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mohammed Saeed , Nicola De Cao , Paolo Papotti

To translate natural language questions into executable database queries, most approaches rely on a fully annotated training set. Annotating a large dataset with queries is difficult as it requires query-language expertise. We reduce this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Irina Saparina , Anton Osokin

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

Objective: To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of information retrieval from pharmacovigilance (PV) databases by employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to convert natural language queries (NLQs) into Structured Query Language (SQL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jeffery L. Painter , Venkateswara Rao Chalamalasetti , Raymond Kassekert , Andrew Bate

Increasingly, keyword, natural language and NoSQL queries are being used for information retrieval from traditional as well as non-traditional databases such as web, document, image, GIS, legal, and health databases. While their popularity…

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Text-to-SQL parsing involves the translation of natural language queries (NLQs) into their corresponding SQL commands. A principal challenge within this domain is the formulation of SQL queries that are not only syntactically correct but…

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