TACO: A Benchmark for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL with Ambiguous and Cross-Database Queries (opens in new tab)

Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language questions into executable SQL queries over structured databases. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on closed-domain settings with predefined database schemas and well-specified questions, but they fall short in addressing the challenges of open-domain scenarios, such as ambiguous questions, unspecified databases, and cross-database querying. To bridge this gap, we introduce TACO, a benchmark for open...