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

11 Jul 2017IJCNLP 2017 11arXiv:1707.03172archive 2025-07-28

Florin Brad, Radu Iacob, Ionel Hosu, Traian Rebedea

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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