ARCS: Towards Precise Text-to-SQL via Structured Disambiguation
This study addresses the problem of Text-to-SQL execution errors caused by ambiguous user queries in real-world scenarios, where traditional conversational clarification proves inefficient. To this end, this work proposes a novel structured disambiguation paradigm that efficiently resolves semantic ambiguity through explicitly constrained interactions. The primary contributions include the construction of ARCS, the first real-world benchmark dataset featuring natural ambiguity annotations with comprehensive coverage of ambiguity points, clarifications, and SQL labels, alongside an end-to-end framework integrating large-scale semantic annotation with automated evaluation. Experiments reveal significant limitations of existing models in handling ambiguity: the best-performing closed-source model achieves only 51% accuracy, while open-source counterparts fall below 27%.