The authors model schema knowledge as a graph mined from parsed query logs: tables connected by observed joins, with column-level domain entities extracted from query patterns.
Text-to-SQL works without schema documentation by mining query logs
Akgül et al. construct a knowledge graph from historical SQL queries and retrieve tables through domain entity matching, outperforming embedding-based retrieval in enterprise settings.
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Ömer Faruk Akgül · Nikhil Kapahi · Prajit Reddy Muppidi
University of Southern California · Amazon
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Akgül, Kapahi and Muppidi present the first text-to-SQL framework that requires no schema documentation, learning database structure from historical query logs.
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