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: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
Practical AI systems increasingly need to turn long, heterogeneous documents into queryable relational databases, not isolated spreadsheets. In domains such as finance, healthcare, education, transportation, and enterprise operations, downstream workflows rely on normalized schemas, entity identities, keys, cross-table relationships, and integrity constraints for analytics, compliance, auditing, and SQL-backed decision making.
arXiv:2608. 08459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Practical AI systems increasingly need to turn long, heterogeneous documents into queryable relational databases, not isolated spreadsheets.
By Zhuowen Liang, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayang Wang, Jiazhuo Chen, Nan Tang
arXiv:2606. 28387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise text-to-SQL systems often fail before SQL is generated: the model receives the wrong schema context.
By Adarsh Agrawal, Shashank Indukuri
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:2607. 06229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Major cloud data platforms now expose large language model capabilities as native SQL functions, enabling analysts to perform classification, filtering, sentiment analysis, extraction, similarity search, and aggregation within ordinary SQL queries.
By Tianyang Liu, Canwen Xu, Fangyu Lei, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Jixuan Chen, Tao Yu, Julian McAuley, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He
arXiv:2606. 17821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in translating natural language to SQL, yet existing methods still falter on complex queries requiring multi-step, data-aware reasoning.
By Esteban Schafir, Xu Zheng, Hojat Allah Salehi, Zhuomin Chen, Mo Sha, Wei Cheng, Dongsheng Luo
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:2608. 06992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a web demo for exploring a large-scale disambiguated knowledge base (KB) materialized from a large language model (LLM).
By Yujia Hu, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski
arXiv:2606. 18108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a text-to-SQL (structured query language) system based on large language models (LLMs) using in-context learning and apply it to the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) astronomical database.
By P. A. Estevez, J. Espejo-Moreira, S. Sanfeliu-Alvarez, F. Forster, A. M. Munoz Arancibia, G. Cabrera-Vives, F. E. Bauer, A. Bayo, M. Catelan, R. Dastidar, L. Hernandez-Garcia, J. A. Intriago, G. Pignata
arXiv:2607. 00008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extracting structured data from unstructured text using large language models (LLMs) becomes challenging when target schemas are large and complex.
By Sin Yu Bonnie Ho, Arlie Coles, Erik Larsson, Eric Marshall, Nathan Bodenstab, Paul Vozila