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Gengyuan Shi
dblp:289/7804
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5ranked-venue papers
4as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0007-2938-1539ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 4 · 3 first-author · 4 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
3 papers |
Data models and query languages · 54% Data integration and cleaning · 20% Query processing and optimization · 20% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program synthesis and code generation · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
code generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PLForge: Enhancing Language Models for Natural Language to Procedural Extensions of SQL · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Data models and query languages › query language implementation
query language translation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adaptive and Robust Translation from Natural Language to Multi-model Query Languages · ACL (1) 2025 |
Program synthesis and code generation
code generation from natural language |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PLForge: Enhancing Language Models for Natural Language to Procedural Extensions of SQL · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Data integration and cleaning › interoperability › database interoperability
polystore |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | FONT: A Flexible Polystore Evaluation Platform · ICDE 2024 |
Data models and query languages
SQL |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | PLForge: Enhancing Language Models for Natural Language to Procedural Extensions of SQL · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Information retrieval › evaluation
benchmark |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | FONT: A Flexible Polystore Evaluation Platform · ICDE 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
prompt construction · 2.6pre-trained language model · 2.6incremental pre-training · 2.6schema embedding · 0.9intermediate query representation · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Adaptive and Robust Translation from Natural Language to Multi-model Query LanguagesabstractMulti-model databases and polystore systems are increasingly studied for managing multimodel data holistically.As their primary interface, multi-model query languages (MMQLs) often exhibit complex grammars, highlighting the need for effective Text-to-MMQL translation methods.Despite advances in natural language translation, no effective solutions for Text-to-MMQL exist.To address this gap, we formally define the Text-to-MMQL task and present the first Text-to-MMQL dataset involving three representative MMQLs.We propose an adaptive Text-to-MMQL framework that includes both a schema embedding module for capturing multi-model schema information and an MMQL representation strategy to generate concise intermediate query formats with error correction in generated queries.Experimental results show that the proposed framework achieves over a 9% accuracy improvement over our adapted baseline methods. Gengyuan Shi, Chaokun Wang, Yabin Liu |
ACL (1) | 1 |
| 2025 | PLForge: Enhancing Language Models for Natural Language to Procedural Extensions of SQLabstractProcedural Language extensions of SQL (abbr. PL/SQL) enhance database programming by integrating procedural constructs with SQL's declarative syntax, thereby improving the reusability, modularity, and maintainability of SQL. Besides, PL/SQL in database systems presents significant challenges in real-world development, primarily due to the inherent complexity of programming. To reduce the development difficulty of PL/SQL, this paper studies the novel task of translating natural language (NL) to PL/SQL (i.e., NL-to-PL/SQL), aimed at simplifying PL/SQL development. Recent advancements in language models have shown promise in translating natural language questions into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL). However, the state-of-the-art Text-to-SQL methods focus only on single SQL queries, neglecting the procedural extensions of SQL, which limits their effectiveness for the NL-to-PL/SQL task. In this paper, we propose PLForge, a suite of pre-trained language models with parameter configurations of 3B, 7B, and 15B, tailored for NL-to-PL/SQL tasks. To enhance the PL/SQL generation capabilities of PLForge, we leverage a curated PL/SQL-centric data corpus and employ an incremental pre-training approach. Furthermore, to fully exploit the potential of PLForge, we propose a comprehensive prompt construction strategy tailored specifically for PL/SQL. Given the scarcity of NL-to-PL/SQL datasets, we develop a template-based method for generating NL-to-PL/SQL data. We conduct a series of experiments on PLForge and several baseline models. Based on execution match and exact match metrics that are designed specifically for the NL-to-PL/SQL task, the experimental results demonstrate that PLForge outperforms existing models in both in-context learning and supervised fine-tuning settings. Hang Zhang 0032, Chaokun Wang, Hongwei Li 0032, Cheng Wu 0004, Songyao Wang, Yabin Liu, Gengyuan Shi, Ziyang Liu 0004 |
Proc. ACM Manag. Data | 7 |
| 2024 | ECQL: Towards Succinct and Extensible Modeling of Multi-model Query Results
Gengyuan Shi, Chaokun Wang, Yabin Liu |
ER | 1 |
| 2024 | FONT: A Flexible Polystore Evaluation PlatformabstractThe concept of polystore has been proposed and studied for heterogeneous data storage and cross-model query processing. Correspondingly, the evaluation of diverse polystores is an essential yet challenging task. However, most current evaluation approaches for polystores only focus on cross-model analytical workloads and provide limited configurations. To address these problems, this paper presents a flexible polystore evaluation platform named FONT. FONT incorporates hybrid single-model and cross-model workloads that combine read and write operations, as well as diagnostic analytical workloads. FONT supports customization of both multi-model dataset generation and workload generation procedures. The proposed platform is the first visual tool for polystore evaluation, providing user-friendly graphical interfaces for user customization and displaying evaluation results. Gengyuan Shi, Chaokun Wang |
ICDE | 1 |
| 2021 | UniTest: A Universal Testing Framework for Database Management Systems
Gengyuan Shi, Chaokun Wang, Bingyang Huang, Hao Feng 0007 |
DASFAA (1) | 1 |