Question Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing

Daya Guo, Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Jian Yin, Hong Chi, James Cao, Peng Chen, Ming Zhou
2018 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  
We study how to learn a semantic parser of state-of-the-art accuracy with less supervised training data. We conduct our study on WikiSQL, the largest hand-annotated semantic parsing dataset to date. First, we demonstrate that question generation is an effective method that empowers us to learn a state-ofthe-art neural network based semantic parser with thirty percent of the supervised training data. Second, we show that applying question generation to the full supervised training data further
more » ... proves the state-of-the-art model. In addition, we observe that there is a logarithmic relationship between the accuracy of a semantic parser and the amount of training data.
doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1188 dblp:conf/emnlp/GuoSTDYCCCZ18 fatcat:i3kwgeokkvccdooqvg3hdkky6q