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John R. Woodward

2 accepted papers

2021

Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications

EMNLP 2021finding

Addressing the mismatch between natural language descriptions and the corresponding SQL queries is a key challenge for text-to-SQL translation. To bridge this gap, we propose an SQL intermediate representation (IR) called Natural SQL (NatSQL). Specifically, NatSQL preserves the core functionalities…

2021

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution

ACL 2021long

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks to translate text descriptions into SQL queries. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchmarks, existing text-to-SQL models typically rely on the lexical matching between words in natural language (NL) questions…