Challenge: Existing models for text-to-SQL do not explicitly introduce common knowledge to address comparison relations.
Approach: They propose to leverage adjective-noun phrasing knowledge mined from the web to predict comparison relations in text-to-SQL.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves on the original and re-split Spider datasets on comparison relation prediction.

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