@inproceedings{gan-etal-2022-measuring,
    title = "Measuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-{SQL} via Component Alignment",
    author = "Gan, Yujian  and
      Chen, Xinyun  and
      Huang, Qiuping  and
      Purver, Matthew",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022",
    month = jul,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Seattle, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.62",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.62",
    pages = "831--843",
    abstract = "In text-to-SQL tasks {---} as in much of NLP {---} \textit{compositional generalization} is a major challenge: neural networks struggle with compositional generalization where training and test distributions differ. However, most recent attempts to improve this are based on word-level synthetic data or specific dataset splits to generate compositional biases. In this work, we propose a clause-level compositional example generation method. We first split the sentences in the Spider text-to-SQL dataset into sub-sentences, annotating each sub-sentence with its corresponding SQL clause, resulting in a new dataset Spider-SS. We then construct a further dataset, Spider-CG, by composing Spider-SS sub-sentences in different combinations, to test the ability of models to generalize compositionally. Experiments show that existing models suffer significant performance degradation when evaluated on Spider-CG, even though every sub-sentence is seen during training. To deal with this problem, we modify a number of state-of-the-art models to train on the segmented data of Spider-SS, and we show that this method improves the generalization performance.",
}