LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations

Ruisheng Cao, Lu Chen, Zhi Chen, Yanbin Zhao, Su Zhu, Kai Yu


Abstract
This work aims to tackle the challenging heterogeneous graph encoding problem in the text-to-SQL task. Previous methods are typically node-centric and merely utilize different weight matrices to parameterize edge types, which 1) ignore the rich semantics embedded in the topological structure of edges, and 2) fail to distinguish local and non-local relations for each node. To this end, we propose a Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL (LGESQL) model to mine the underlying relational features without constructing meta-paths. By virtue of the line graph, messages propagate more efficiently through not only connections between nodes, but also the topology of directed edges. Furthermore, both local and non-local relations are integrated distinctively during the graph iteration. We also design an auxiliary task called graph pruning to improve the discriminative capability of the encoder. Our framework achieves state-of-the-art results (62.8% with Glove, 72.0% with Electra) on the cross-domain text-to-SQL benchmark Spider at the time of writing.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-long.198
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2541–2555
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.198
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.198
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Cite (ACL):
Ruisheng Cao, Lu Chen, Zhi Chen, Yanbin Zhao, Su Zhu, and Kai Yu. 2021. LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2541–2555, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations (Cao et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.198.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.198.mp4
Code
 rhythmcao/text2sql-lgesql
Data
Spider-Realistic