%0 Journal Article %1 Lukovnikov2018-vq %A Lukovnikov, Denis %A Chakraborty, Nilesh %A Lehmann, Jens %A Fischer, Asja %D 2018 %I arXiv %K %T Translating natural language to SQL using pointer-generator networks and how decoding order matters %X Translating natural language to SQL queries for table-based question answering is a challenging problem and has received significant attention from the research community. In this work, we extend a pointer-generator and investigate the order-matters problem in semantic parsing for SQL. Even though our model is a straightforward extension of a general-purpose pointer-generator, it outperforms early works for WikiSQL and remains competitive to concurrently introduced, more complex models. Moreover, we provide a deeper investigation of the potential order-matters problem that could arise due to having multiple correct decoding paths, and investigate the use of REINFORCE as well as a dynamic oracle in this context.

@article{Lukovnikov2018-vq, abstract = {Translating natural language to SQL queries for table-based question answering is a challenging problem and has received significant attention from the research community. In this work, we extend a pointer-generator and investigate the order-matters problem in semantic parsing for SQL. Even though our model is a straightforward extension of a general-purpose pointer-generator, it outperforms early works for WikiSQL and remains competitive to concurrently introduced, more complex models. Moreover, we provide a deeper investigation of the potential order-matters problem that could arise due to having multiple correct decoding paths, and investigate the use of REINFORCE as well as a dynamic oracle in this context.}, added-at = {2024-09-10T11:56:37.000+0200}, author = {Lukovnikov, Denis and Chakraborty, Nilesh and Lehmann, Jens and Fischer, Asja}, biburl = {https://puma.scadsai.uni-leipzig.de/bibtex/2d37cb56f01a6ddf5dfa87cd0d40b6894/scadsfct}, interhash = {9f716f87615f2393a9aebf78dcb79f3a}, intrahash = {d37cb56f01a6ddf5dfa87cd0d40b6894}, keywords = {}, publisher = {arXiv}, timestamp = {2024-09-10T15:15:57.000+0200}, title = {Translating natural language to {SQL} using pointer-generator networks and how decoding order matters}, year = 2018 }