Recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems

Z Zhang, R Takanobu, Q Zhu, ML Huang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language
processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both …

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 …

A survey on deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL

G Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, G Koutrika - The VLDB Journal, 2023 - Springer
To bridge the gap between users and data, numerous text-to-SQL systems have been
developed that allow users to pose natural language questions over relational databases …

Rethinking explainability as a dialogue: A practitioner's perspective

H Lakkaraju, D Slack, Y Chen, C Tan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as
health care, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function …

Mftcoder: Boosting code llms with multitask fine-tuning

B Liu, C Chen, Z Gong, C Liao, H Wang, Z Lei… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Code LLMs have emerged as a specialized research field, with remarkable studies
dedicated to enhancing model's coding capabilities through fine-tuning on pre-trained …

Natural language to visualization by neural machine translation

Y Luo, N Tang, G Li, J Tang, C Chai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supporting the translation from natural language (NL) query to visualization (NL2VIS) can
simplify the creation of data visualizations because if successful, anyone can generate …

A Survey of NL2SQL with Large Language Models: Where are we, and where are we going?

X Liu, S Shen, B Li, P Ma, R Jiang, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (ie, NL2SQL) can
significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support various …

Parameterizing context: Unleashing the power of parameter-efficient fine-tuning and in-context tuning for continual table semantic parsing

Y Chen, S Zhang, G Qi, X Guo - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Continual table semantic parsing aims to train a parser on a sequence of tasks, where each
task requires the parser to translate natural language into SQL based on task-specific tables …

[LIBRO][B] Neural approaches to conversational information retrieval

J Gao, C **ong, P Bennett, N Craswell - 2023 - Springer
A conversational information retrieval (CIR) system is an information retrieval (IR) system
with a conversational interface, which allows users to interact with the system to seek …

Task-oriented dialogue as dataflow synthesis

J Andreas, J Bufe, D Burkett, C Chen… - Transactions of the …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
We describe an approach to task-oriented dialogue in which dialogue state is represented
as a dataflow graph. A dialogue agent maps each user utterance to a program that extends …