Dataset for a Neural Natural Language Interface for Databases (NNLIDB)

Florin Brad, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ionel Alexandru Hosu, Traian Rebedea


Abstract
Progress in natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) has been slow mainly due to linguistic issues (such as language ambiguity) and domain portability. Moreover, the lack of a large corpus to be used as a standard benchmark has made data-driven approaches difficult to develop and compare. In this paper, we revisit the problem of NLIDBs and recast it as a sequence translation problem. To this end, we introduce a large dataset extracted from the Stack Exchange Data Explorer website, which can be used for training neural natural language interfaces for databases. We also report encouraging baseline results on a smaller manually annotated test corpus, obtained using an attention-based sequence-to-sequence neural network.
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I17-1091
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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906–914
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https://aclanthology.org/I17-1091
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Florin Brad, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ionel Alexandru Hosu, and Traian Rebedea. 2017. Dataset for a Neural Natural Language Interface for Databases (NNLIDB). In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 906–914, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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Dataset for a Neural Natural Language Interface for Databases (NNLIDB) (Brad et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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