SPORTSQL: An Interactive System for Real-Time Sports Reasoning and Visualization

Sebastian Martinez, Naman Ahuja, Fenil Bardoliya, Suparno Roy Chowdhury, Chris Bryan, Vivek Gupta


Abstract
We present a modular, interactive system, SPORTSQL, for natural language querying and visualization of dynamic sports data, with a focus on the English Premier League (EPL). The system translates user questions into executable SQL over a live, temporally indexeddatabase constructed from real-time Fantasy Premier League (FPL) data. It supports both tabular and visual outputs, leveraging symbolic reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for query parsing, schema linking, and visualization selection. To evaluate system performance, we introduce the Dynamic Sport Question Answering Benchmark (DSQABENCH), comprising 1,700+ queries annotated with SQL programs, gold answers, and database snapshots. Our demo highlights how non-expert users can seamlessly explore evolving sports statistics through a natural, conversational interface.
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2025.ijcnlp-demo.11
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Proceedings of The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and The 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2025
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Mumbai, India
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Xuebo Liu, Ayu Purwarianti
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IJCNLP
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Sebastian Martinez, Naman Ahuja, Fenil Bardoliya, Suparno Roy Chowdhury, Chris Bryan, and Vivek Gupta. 2025. SPORTSQL: An Interactive System for Real-Time Sports Reasoning and Visualization. In Proceedings of The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and The 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 94–101, Mumbai, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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