Tackling Temporal Questions in Natural Language Interface to Databases

Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Octavian Popescu, Irene Manotas, Vadim Sheinin


Abstract
Temporal aspect is one of the most challenging areas in Natural Language Interface to Databases (NLIDB). This paper addresses and examines how temporal questions being studied and supported by the research community at both levels: popular annotated dataset (e.g. Spider) and recent advanced models. We present a new dataset with accompanied databases supporting temporal questions in NLIDB. We experiment with two SOTA models (Picard and ValueNet) to investigate how our new dataset helps these models learn and improve performance in temporal aspect.
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2022.emnlp-industry.18
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
Editors:
Yunyao Li, Angeliki Lazaridou
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
179–187
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-industry.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-industry.18
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Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Octavian Popescu, Irene Manotas, and Vadim Sheinin. 2022. Tackling Temporal Questions in Natural Language Interface to Databases. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track, pages 179–187, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Tackling Temporal Questions in Natural Language Interface to Databases (Vo et al., EMNLP 2022)
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