Published on June 11, 2025
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Updated on June 11, 2025
Dates
from June 16, 2025 to June 19, 2025
Thursday, June 19
9:00 am
9:00 am
Location
Ischia (Italy)
Paolo Papotti, 3IA Chairholder, will be one of the keynote speakers of the 33rd Symposium On Advanced Database Systems.
The SEBD Conference 2025 will be hosted in Ischia, Italy, from June 16-19, 2025, at the Hotel Hermitage Terme SPA. This marks the 33rd iteration of this premier annual gathering for Italy's database research community, conducted entirely in English. The symposium serves as a collaborative platform where academics and industry professionals converge to share insights, discuss innovations, and exchange expertise in database systems and their diverse applications.
Paolo Papotti, 3IA Chairholder, will give a talk on Thursday, June 19, titled "SQL and Large Language Models: A Marriage Made in Heaven?".
Abstract: With the rise of pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs), there is now an effective solution to store and use information extracted from massive corpora of documents. However, for data-intensive tasks over structured data, relational DBs and SQL queries are at the core of countless applications. While these two technologies may appear distant, in this talk we will see that they can interact effectively and with promising results. LLMs can help users express SQL queries (Semantic Parsing), but SQL queries can be used to evaluate LLMs (Benchmarking). Their combination can be further advanced, with opportunities to query with a unified SQL interface both LLMs and DBs. We present recent results on these topics and then conclude with an overview of the research challenges in effectively leveraging the combined power of SQL and LLMs.
Learn more about SEBD 2025
Paolo Papotti, 3IA Chairholder, will give a talk on Thursday, June 19, titled "SQL and Large Language Models: A Marriage Made in Heaven?".
Abstract: With the rise of pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs), there is now an effective solution to store and use information extracted from massive corpora of documents. However, for data-intensive tasks over structured data, relational DBs and SQL queries are at the core of countless applications. While these two technologies may appear distant, in this talk we will see that they can interact effectively and with promising results. LLMs can help users express SQL queries (Semantic Parsing), but SQL queries can be used to evaluate LLMs (Benchmarking). Their combination can be further advanced, with opportunities to query with a unified SQL interface both LLMs and DBs. We present recent results on these topics and then conclude with an overview of the research challenges in effectively leveraging the combined power of SQL and LLMs.
Learn more about SEBD 2025
