Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System

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• Dial improves translation accuracy by 10.25% over state-of-the-art baselines on the DS-NL2SQL benchmark.result 95%
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  Experimental results show that Dial consistently improves translation accuracy by 10.25% and dialect feature coverage by 15.77% over state-of-the-art baselines.

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• Dial improves dialect feature coverage by 15.77% over state-of-the-art baselines.result 95%
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  Experimental results show that Dial consistently improves translation accuracy by 10.25% and dialect feature coverage by 15.77% over state-of-the-art baselines.

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• Most existing NL2SQL methods assume a single dialect (e.g., SQLite) and struggle to produce queries that are both semantically correct and executable on target engines.limitation 85%
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  However, most existing NL2SQL methods assume a single dialect (e.g., SQLite) and struggle to produce queries that are both semantically correct and executable on target engines.

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• Prompt-based approaches tightly couple intent reasoning with dialect syntax, which is a limitation that Dial addresses.limitation 80%
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  Prompt-based approaches tightly couple intent reasoning with dialect syntax

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a limitation of existing approaches

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• Dial introduces a Dialect-Aware Logical Query Planning module that converts natural language into a dialect-aware logical query plan via operator-level intent decomposition and divergence-aware specification.method 90%
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  Dial introduces: (1) a Dialect-Aware Logical Query Planning module that converts natural language into a dialect-aware logical query plan via operator-level intent decomposition and divergence-aware specification

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  Explicitly stated as a core component of the proposed method

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• Dial introduces HINT-KB, a hierarchical intent-aware knowledge base that organizes dialect knowledge into a canonical syntax reference, declarative function repository, and procedural constraint repository.method 90%
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  HINT-KB, a hierarchical intent-aware knowledge base that organizes dialect knowledge into (i) a canonical syntax reference, (ii) a declarative function repository, and (iii) a procedural constraint repository

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• The DS-NL2SQL benchmark covers six major database systems with 2,218 dialect-specific test cases.technical 95%
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  We construct DS-NL2SQL, a benchmark covering six major database systems with 2,218 dialect-specific test cases.

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• Multi-dialect fine-tuning suffers from cross-dialect interference, which is a limitation that Dial addresses.limitation 80%
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  multi-dialect fine-tuning suffers from cross-dialect interference

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a limitation of existing approaches

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Competitive landscape

Dial is a knowledge-grounded NL2SQL system that translates natural language into dialect-specific SQL queries for heterogeneous database systems, improving accuracy and dialect coverage.