A survey on text-to-sql parsing: Concepts, methods, and future directions

B Qin, B Hui, L Wang, M Yang, J Li, B Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Text-to-SQL parsing is an essential and challenging task. The goal of text-to-SQL parsing is
to convert a natural language (NL) question to its corresponding structured query language …

Can llm already serve as a database interface? a big bench for large-scale database grounded text-to-sqls

J Li, B Hui, G Qu, J Yang, B Li, B Li… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language instructions into executable
SQLs, has gained increasing attention in recent years. In particular, GPT-4 and Claude-2 …

Graphix-t5: Mixing pre-trained transformers with graph-aware layers for text-to-sql parsing

J Li, B Hui, R Cheng, B Qin, C Ma, N Huo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
The task of text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language questions into
executable SQL queries, has garnered increasing attention in recent years. One of the major …

Rasat: Integrating relational structures into pretrained seq2seq model for text-to-sql

J Qi, J Tang, Z He, X Wan, Y Cheng, C Zhou… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Relational structures such as schema linking and schema encoding have been validated as
a key component to qualitatively translating natural language into SQL queries. However …

SSQL: Injecting Syntax to Question-Schema Interaction Graph Encoder for Text-to-SQL Parsers

B Hui, R Geng, L Wang, B Qin, B Li, J Sun… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The task of converting a natural language question into an executable SQL query, known as
text-to-SQL, is an important branch of semantic parsing. The state-of-the-art graph-based …

Large language models are versatile decomposers: Decomposing evidence and questions for table-based reasoning

Y Ye, B Hui, M Yang, B Li, F Huang, Y Li - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Table-based reasoning has shown remarkable progress in a wide range of table-based
tasks. It is a challenging task, which requires reasoning over both free-form natural language …

LI-EMRSQL: Linking information enhanced Text2SQL parsing on complex electronic medical records

Q Li, T You, J Chen, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Converting natural language text into executable SQL queries significantly impacts the
healthcare domain, specifically when applied to electronic medical records. Given that …

Proton: Probing schema linking information from pre-trained language models for text-to-sql parsing

L Wang, B Qin, B Hui, B Li, M Yang, B Wang… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The importance of building text-to-SQL parsers which can be applied to new databases has
long been acknowledged, and a critical step to achieve this goal is schema linking, ie …

Few-shot text-to-sql translation using structure and content prompt learning

Z Gu, J Fan, N Tang, L Cao, B Jia, S Madden… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A common problem with adopting Text-to-SQL translation in database systems is poor
generalization. Specifically, when there is limited training data on new datasets, existing few …

Space-2: Tree-structured semi-supervised contrastive pre-training for task-oriented dialog understanding

W He, Y Dai, B Hui, M Yang, Z Cao, J Dong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Pre-training methods with contrastive learning objectives have shown remarkable success
in dialog understanding tasks. However, current contrastive learning solely considers the …