MURRE: Multi-Hop Table Retrieval with Removal for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL

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Autori principali: Zhang, Xuanliang, Wang, Dingzirui, Dou, Longxu, Zhu, Qingfu, Che, Wanxiang
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author Zhang, Xuanliang
Wang, Dingzirui
Dou, Longxu
Zhu, Qingfu
Che, Wanxiang
author_facet Zhang, Xuanliang
Wang, Dingzirui
Dou, Longxu
Zhu, Qingfu
Che, Wanxiang
contents The open-domain text-to-SQL task aims to retrieve question-relevant tables from massive databases and generate SQL. However, the performance of current methods is constrained by single-hop retrieval, and existing multi-hop retrieval of open-domain question answering is not directly applicable due to the tendency to retrieve tables similar to the retrieved ones but irrelevant to the question. Since the questions in text-to-SQL usually contain all required information, while previous multi-hop retrieval supplements the questions with retrieved documents. Therefore, we propose the multi-hop table retrieval with removal (MURRE), which removes previously retrieved information from the question to guide the retriever towards unretrieved relevant tables. Our experiments on two open-domain text-to-SQL datasets demonstrate an average improvement of 5.7% over the previous state-of-the-art results.
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spellingShingle MURRE: Multi-Hop Table Retrieval with Removal for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL
Zhang, Xuanliang
Wang, Dingzirui
Dou, Longxu
Zhu, Qingfu
Che, Wanxiang
Computation and Language
The open-domain text-to-SQL task aims to retrieve question-relevant tables from massive databases and generate SQL. However, the performance of current methods is constrained by single-hop retrieval, and existing multi-hop retrieval of open-domain question answering is not directly applicable due to the tendency to retrieve tables similar to the retrieved ones but irrelevant to the question. Since the questions in text-to-SQL usually contain all required information, while previous multi-hop retrieval supplements the questions with retrieved documents. Therefore, we propose the multi-hop table retrieval with removal (MURRE), which removes previously retrieved information from the question to guide the retriever towards unretrieved relevant tables. Our experiments on two open-domain text-to-SQL datasets demonstrate an average improvement of 5.7% over the previous state-of-the-art results.
title MURRE: Multi-Hop Table Retrieval with Removal for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10666