TP-Link: Fine-grained Pre-Training for Text-to-SQL Parsing with Linking Information (2024.lrec-main)
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Ziqiang Liu, Shujie Li, Zefeng Cai, Xiangyu Li, Yunshui Li, Chengming Li, Xiping Hu, Ruifeng Xu, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing pre-training frameworks for text-to-SQL parsing have shown inherent differences in distributions between tables and plain text. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to improve context-dependent Text-to-SQL parsing by leveraging Linking information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on two leading downstream benchmarks. |
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