Jia Chen
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2025
Dialect-SQL: An Adaptive Framework for Bridging the Dialect Gap in Text-to-SQL
Jie Shi
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Xi Cao
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Bo Xu
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Jiaqing Liang
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Yanghua Xiao
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Jia Chen
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Peng Wang
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Wei Wang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Text-to-SQL is the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries based on relational databases. Different databases implement their own SQL dialects, leading to variations in syntax. As a result, SQL queries designed for one database may not execute properly in another, creating a dialect gap. Existing Text-to-SQL research primarily focuses on specific database systems, limiting adaptability to different dialects. This paper proposes a novel adaptive framework called Dialect-SQL, which employs Object Relational Mapping (ORM) code as an intermediate language to bridge this gap. Given a question, we guide Large Language Models (LLMs) to first generate ORM code, which is then parsed into SQL queries targeted for specific databases. However, there is a lack of high-quality Text-to-Code datasets that enable LLMs to effectively generate ORM code. To address this issue, we propose a bootstrapping approach to synthesize ORM code, where verified ORM code is iteratively integrated into a demonstration pool that serves as in-context examples for ORM code generation. Our experiments demonstrate that Dialect-SQL significantly enhances dialect adaptability, outperforming traditional methods that generate SQL queries directly. Our code and data are released at https://github.com/jieshi10/orm-sql.
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