Large language model for table processing: A survey

W Lu, J Zhang, J Fan, Z Fu, Y Chen, X Du - Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025 - Springer
Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are
essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, Web table …

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 …

Codes: Towards building open-source language models for text-to-sql

H Li, J Zhang, H Liu, J Fan, X Zhang, J Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Language models have shown promising performance on the task of translating natural
language questions into SQL queries (Text-to-SQL). However, most of the state-of-the-art …

A survey on employing large language models for text-to-sql tasks

L Shi, Z Tang, N Zhang, X Zhang, Z Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The increasing volume of data in relational databases and the expertise needed for writing
SQL queries pose challenges for users to access and analyze data. Text-to-SQL (Text2SQL) …

Data ambiguity strikes back: How documentation improves gpt's text-to-sql

Z Huang, PK Damalapati, E Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.18742, 2023 - arxiv.org
Text-to-SQL allows experts to use databases without in-depth knowledge of them. However,
real-world tasks have both query and data ambiguities. Most works on Text-to-SQL focused …

Evaluating the data model robustness of text-to-SQL systems based on real user queries

J Fürst, C Kosten, F Nooralahzadeh, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Text-to-SQL systems (also known as NL-to-SQL systems) have become an increasingly
popular solution for bridging the gap between user capabilities and SQL-based data access …

Metasql: A generate-then-rank framework for natural language to sql translation

Y Fan, Z He, T Ren, C Huang, Y **g, K Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Natural Language Interface to Databases (NLIDB) empowers non-technical users with
database access through intuitive natural language (NL) interactions. Advanced …

SM3-Text-to-Query: Synthetic Multi-Model Medical Text-to-Query Benchmark

S Sivasubramaniam, C Osei-Akoto, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Electronic health records (EHRs) are stored in various database systems with different
database models on heterogeneous storage architectures, such as relational databases …

LEAP: LLM-powered End-to-end Automatic Library for Processing Social Science Queries on Unstructured Data

C Hu, A Peters, D Kang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.03892, 2025 - arxiv.org
Social scientists are increasingly interested in analyzing the semantic information (eg,
emotion) of unstructured data (eg, Tweets), where the semantic information is not natively …

Evaluating the effectiveness of prompt engineering for knowledge graph question answering

C Kosten, F Nooralahzadeh… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Many different methods for prompting large language models have been developed since
the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022. In this work, we evaluate six …