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 …

ETC: Encoding long and structured inputs in transformers

J Ainslie, S Ontanon, C Alberti, V Cvicek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Transformer models have advanced the state of the art in many Natural Language
Processing (NLP) tasks. In this paper, we present a new Transformer architecture, Extended …

Bridging textual and tabular data for cross-domain text-to-SQL semantic parsing

XV Lin, R Socher, C Xiong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12627, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present BRIDGE, a powerful sequential architecture for modeling dependencies
between natural language questions and relational databases in cross-DB semantic …

Introduction to neural network‐based question answering over knowledge graphs

N Chakraborty, D Lukovnikov… - … : Data Mining and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Question answering has emerged as an intuitive way of querying structured data sources
and has attracted significant advancements over the years. A large body of recent work on …

Entity linking in 100 languages

JA Botha, Z Shan, D Gillick - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02690, 2020 - arxiv.org
We propose a new formulation for multilingual entity linking, where language-specific
mentions resolve to a language-agnostic Knowledge Base. We train a dual encoder in this …

Webformer: The web-page transformer for structure information extraction

Q Wang, Y Fang, A Ravula, F Feng, X Quan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Structure information extraction refers to the task of extracting structured text fields from web
pages, such as extracting a product offer from a shopping page including product title …

Scalable neural methods for reasoning with a symbolic knowledge base

WW Cohen, H Sun, RA Hofer, M Siegler - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06115, 2020 - arxiv.org
We describe a novel way of representing a symbolic knowledge base (KB) called a sparse-
matrix reified KB. This representation enables neural modules that are fully differentiable …

Mt-teql: evaluating and augmenting neural nlidb on real-world linguistic and schema variations

P Ma, S Wang - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB) translates human utterances into SQL
queries and enables database interactions for non-expert users. Recently, neural network …

Representations for question answering from documents with tables and text

V Zayats, K Toutanova, M Ostendorf - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10573, 2021 - arxiv.org
Tables in Web documents are pervasive and can be directly used to answer many of the
queries searched on the Web, motivating their integration in question answering. Very often …

Smartave: Structured multimodal transformer for product attribute value extraction

Q Wang, L Yang, J Wang, J Krishnan… - Findings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Automatic product attribute value extraction refers to the task of identifying values of an
attribute from the product information. Product attributes are essential in improving online …