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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
hc4348901f3a8891c
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
0.00010920878
Overall Rank
1,356 | 90.89%
DOI
10.14778/3583140.3583165
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BibTeX Citation

@article{fu_vldb23,
        title = {{CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications}},
        author = {Fu, Han and Liu, Chang and Wu, Bin and Li, Feifei and Tan, Jian and Sun, Jianling},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1534--1547},
        doi = {10.14778/3583140.3583165},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3583140.3583165},
        year = {2023}
}

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180 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.00026541021
439 ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores 2016 VLDB 0.00018253425
778 Natural language to SQL: Where are we today? 2020 VLDB 0.00014066246
1,920 QUEST: A Keyword Search System for Relational Data based on Semantic and Machine Learning Techniques 2013 VLDB 9.3737796e-05
2,014 DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline 2020 SIGMOD 9.185301e-05
2,777 DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases 2018 SIGMOD 8.0271197e-05
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