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    title = "Clause-Wise and Recursive Decoding for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-{SQL} Generation",
    author = "Lee, Dongjun",
    editor = "Inui, Kentaro  and
      Jiang, Jing  and
      Ng, Vincent  and
      Wan, Xiaojun",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-1624/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1624",
    pages = "6045--6051",
    abstract = "Most deep learning approaches for text-to-SQL generation are limited to the WikiSQL dataset, which only supports very simple queries over a single table. We focus on the Spider dataset, a complex and cross-domain text-to-SQL task, which includes complex queries over multiple tables. In this paper, we propose a SQL clause-wise decoding neural architecture with a self-attention based database schema encoder to address the Spider task. Each of the clause-specific decoders consists of a set of sub-modules, which is defined by the syntax of each clause. Additionally, our model works recursively to support nested queries. When evaluated on the Spider dataset, our approach achieves 4.6{\%} and 9.8{\%} accuracy gain in the test and dev sets, respectively. In addition, we show that our model is significantly more effective at predicting complex and nested queries than previous work."
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%T Clause-Wise and Recursive Decoding for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generation
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%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
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%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
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Markdown (Informal)
[Clause-Wise and Recursive Decoding for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generation](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1624/) (Lee, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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