Routing End User Queries to Enterprise Databases

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Authors: Saikrishna Sudarshan, Kulkarni, Tanay, Manasi S. Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig, Ashwin Srinivasan, Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar
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Abstract

We address the task of routing natural language queries in multi-database enterprise environments. We construct realistic benchmarks by extending existing NL-to-SQL datasets. Our study shows that routing becomes increasingly challenging with larger, domain-overlapping DB repositories and ambiguous queries, motivating the need for more structured and robust reasoning-based solutions. By explicitly modelling schema coverage, structural connectivity, and fine-grained semantic alignment, the proposed modular, reasoning-driven reranking strategy consistently outperforms embedding-only and direct LLM-prompting baselines across all the metrics.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topic Modeling Natural Language Processing Techniques Advanced Database Systems and Queries

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
27 January 2026
Document type
Preprint