Natural Language Response Generation from SQL with Generalization and Back-translation

Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Tianyang Zhao


Abstract
Generation of natural language responses to the queries of structured language like SQL is very challenging as it requires generalization to new domains and the ability to answer ambiguous queries among other issues. We have participated in the CoSQL shared task organized in the IntEx-SemPar workshop at EMNLP 2020. We have trained a number of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models to efficiently generate the natural language responses from SQL. Our shuffled back-translation model has led to a BLEU score of 7.47 on the unknown test dataset. In this paper, we will discuss our methodologies to approach the problem and future directions to improve the quality of the generated natural language responses.
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2020.intexsempar-1.6
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing
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November
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2020
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Online
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Ben Bogin, Srinivasan Iyer, Xi Victoria Lin, Dragomir Radev, Alane Suhr, Panupong, Caiming Xiong, Pengcheng Yin, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Victor Zhong
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intexsempar
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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46–49
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.intexsempar-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.intexsempar-1.6
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Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay and Tianyang Zhao. 2020. Natural Language Response Generation from SQL with Generalization and Back-translation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing, pages 46–49, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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