Text-to-SQL in the Wild: A Naturally-Occurring Dataset Based on Stack Exchange Data

Most available semantic parsing datasets, comprising of pairs of natural utterances and logical forms, were collected solely for the purpose of training and evaluation of natural language understanding systems. As a result, they do not contain any of the richness and variety of natural-occurring utterances, where humans ask about data they need or are curious about. In this work, we release SEDE, a dataset with 12,023 pairs of utterances and SQL queries collected from real usage on the Stack Exchange website. We show that these pairs contain a variety of real-world challenges which were rarely reflected so far in any other semantic parsing dataset, propose an evaluation metric based on comparison of partial query clauses that is more suitable for real-world queries, and conduct experiments with strong baselines, showing a large gap between the performance on SEDE compared to other common datasets.

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SEDE

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ATIS WikiSQL SPIDER Spider-Realistic

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Text-To-SQL SEDE T5-Large PCM-F1 (dev) 48.2 # 1
PCM-F1 (test) 50.6 # 1

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