Routing End User Queries to Enterprise Databases
Saikrishna Sudarshan, Tanay Kulkarni, Manasi Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig, Ashwin Srinivasan, Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar
Abstract
We address the task of routing natural language queries in multi-database enterprise environments. We construct realistic benchmarks by extending existing NL-to-SQL datasets. Our study shows that routing becomes increasingly challenging with larger, domain-overlapping DB repositories and ambiguous queries, motivating the need for more structured and robust reasoning-based solutions. By explicitly modelling schema coverage, structural connectivity, and fine-grained semantic alignment, the proposed modular, reasoning-driven re-ranking strategy consistently outperforms embedding-only and direct LLM-prompting baselines across all the metrics.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.surgellm-1.16
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, United States
- Editors:
- Vivek Gupta, Kaize Ding, Harsha Kokel, Yue Zhao, Amit Agarwal, Yu Wang, Michael Glass, Yu Zhang, Kavitha Srinivas, Xiusi Chen, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Qi Zhu, Shuaichen Chang, Yuan Luo
- Venues:
- SURGeLLM | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 260–268
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.surgellm-1.16/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Saikrishna Sudarshan, Tanay Kulkarni, Manasi Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig, Ashwin Srinivasan, and Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar. 2026. Routing End User Queries to Enterprise Databases. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026), pages 260–268, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Routing End User Queries to Enterprise Databases (Sudarshan et al., SURGeLLM 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.surgellm-1.16.pdf