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This work aims to improve the parsing of natural language to SQL queries by reinforcing schema representation using contextual information.

August 21, 2019Open Access

X-SQL: reinforce schema representation with context

PHPengcheng HeWannan Medical College YMYi MaoMinistry of Communications KCKaushik ChakrabartiMicrosoft Research (United Kingdom)

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This work aims to improve the parsing of natural language to SQL queries by reinforcing schema representation using contextual information.
Developed X-SQL, a new network architecture for parsing.
Enhanced schema representation with contextual output from a BERT-style pre-training model.
Evaluated X-SQL on the WikiSQL dataset.
Demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on the WikiSQL dataset.

Abstract

In this work, we present X-SQL, a new network architecture for the problem of parsing natural language to SQL query. X-SQL proposes to enhance the structural schema representation with the contextual output from BERT-style pre-training model, and together with type information to learn a new schema representation for down-stream tasks. We evaluated X-SQL on the WikiSQL dataset and show its new state-of-the-art performance.

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