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AmbiSQL: Interactive Ambiguity Detection and Resolution for Text-to-SQL

Zhongjun Ding, Yin Lin, Tianjing Zeng, Rong Zhu +2 more

Published

Aug 21, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Mixed

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Mar 23, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
40/100
Adjacent candidate

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Abstract

Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users. While large language models (LLMs) show promising results for this task, they remain error-prone. Query ambiguity has been recognized as a major obstacle in LLM-based Text-to-SQL systems, leading to misinterpretation of user intent and inaccurate SQL generation. To this end, we present AmbiSQL, an interactive system that automatically detects query ambiguities and guides users through intuitive multiple-choice questions to clarify their intent. It introduces a fine-grained ambiguity taxonomy for identifying ambiguities arising from both database elements and LLM reasoning, and subsequently incorporates user feedback to rewrite ambiguous questions. In this demonstration, AmbiSQL is integrated with XiYan-SQL, our commercial Text-to-SQL backend. We provide 40 ambiguous queries collected from two real-world benchmarks that SIGMOD'26 attendees can use to explore how disambiguation improves SQL generation quality. Participants can also apply the system to their own databases and natural language questions. The codebase and demo video are available at: https://github.com/JustinzjDing/AmbiSQL and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbB-0ZKwYkk.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

partial

Demonstrations

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Rater Population

partial

Mixed

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Demonstrations
Rater population
Mixed
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users.
  • While large language models (LLMs) show promising results for this task, they remain error-prone.
  • Query ambiguity has been recognized as a major obstacle in LLM-based Text-to-SQL systems, leading to misinterpretation of user intent and inaccurate SQL generation.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • To this end, we present AmbiSQL, an interactive system that automatically detects query ambiguities and guides users through intuitive multiple-choice questions to clarify their intent.
  • We provide 40 ambiguous queries collected from two real-world benchmarks that SIGMOD'26 attendees can use to explore how disambiguation improves SQL generation quality.

Why it matters for eval

  • We provide 40 ambiguous queries collected from two real-world benchmarks that SIGMOD'26 attendees can use to explore how disambiguation improves SQL generation quality.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Demonstrations

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.