CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications

Summary: CatSQL: sketch-based NL2SQL with slot-filled templates tied to neural models—slots can propagate values to infer others, avoiding boilerplate token generation to boost accuracy and speed. Plus Semantics Correction, a DB-rule post-processor that fixes semantic errors; achieves +4% on Spider and up to 63× throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13016
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 0.00010723825
Overall Rank: 1,731 | 87.98%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583165

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535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020718836
973	Natural language to SQL: Where are we today?	2020	VLDB	0.0001488435
1,686	QUEST: A Keyword Search System for Relational Data based on Semantic and Machine Learning Techniques	2013	VLDB	0.0001090887
2,325	DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline	2020	SIGMOD	9.0277894e-05
2,819	DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases	2018	SIGMOD	8.0668406e-05
3,506	MT-TeQL: Evaluating and Augmenting Neural NLIDB on Real-world Linguistic and Schema Variations	2022	VLDB	7.0301746e-05
4,974	Verifying Text Summaries of Relational Data Sets	2019	SIGMOD	5.7877104e-05

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