Retrieval in the SQL setting has largely been studied as the task of finding, within a large collection of SQL statements, the statement that answers a natural-language question. At scale, however, a more fundamental retrieval problem precedes generation: schema retrieval, identifying the tables and columns a question requires in a database that may contain thousands of them, far more than fit in a model's context.
arXiv:2606. 28601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in Text-to-SQL has been driven by stronger language models and prompting strategies, yet performance on real enterprise benchmarks such as Spider 2.
By Jingwen Liu, Weibin Liao, Xin Gao, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang
arXiv:2606. 28370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise business intelligence queries span structured warehouses and unstructured document repositories -- modalities with fundamentally different access methods, cost profiles, and correctness semantics.
By Darshita Rathore, Vineet Kumar, Vaibhav Singal, Ankur Vivek Singh, Anindya Moitra
arXiv:2606. 04646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world questions over business, legal, and scientific corpora are natural-language versions of database-style queries over records latent in text.
By Mengao Zhang, Xiang Yang, Chang Liu, Tianhui Tan, Ke-wei Huang
arXiv:2608. 06331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: From natural-language query interfaces to automated report generation, data analysis tools need a description of the data: the real-world entities it contains, which columns function as measures or identifiers, and how tables connect into units of analysis.
By Donna Hooshmand, Shubham Shahi, Cameron Barrie, Abhratanu Dutta, Marko Sterbentz, Harper Pack, Kristian J. Hammond
arXiv:2508. 01815v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-SPARQL maps natural-language questions to executable SPARQL queries over RDF knowledge graphs.
By Yang Zhao, Chengxiao Dai, Yue Xiu, Dusit Niyato
arXiv:2606. 30473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study retrieval over catalogs of structured metadata, where each record is a small schema whose fields answer different kinds of query.
By Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez, Rafael Macalaba
arXiv:2607. 03926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic tabular data support use cases like data sharing, model development under access restrictions, and rapid prototyping of analytical workflows.
By Jialin Zhang, Fenghao Dong, Yajie Zhou, Vyas Sekar, Shinan Liu
arXiv:2607. 18029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers need to answer ad-hoc questions about the contents of domain-specific archives but often lack the expertise to write structured queries on the metadata.
By Blake G. Fitch, Cato Elia Kurtz
arXiv:2607. 14494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is commonly approached through either information retrieval over a question-specific subgraph or semantic parsing into an executable logical form.
By Yiming Zhang, Koji Tsuda
arXiv:2602. 16720v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments.
By Bowen Cao, Weibin Liao, Yushi Sun, Dong Fang, Haitao Li, Wai Lam
arXiv:2502. 11201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: NoSQL databases are core data infrastructure, yet natural-language access to them remains underdeveloped: correct query generation must recover how a non-relational data model represents entities, nested paths, arrays, missing fields, and dynamic keys.
By Jinwei Lu, Jiawei Lu, Chen Zhang, Zhiqian Qin, Haodi Zhang, Yuanfeng Song, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong