> I think the problem is the quirkiness on the English side
While likely, the question asked if there was any improvement shown with other targets to validate that assumption. There is no benefit in thinking.
> And often query results must be 100% accurate and reliable.
It seems that is impossible. Even the human programmers struggle to reliably convert natural language to SQL according to the aforementioned test study. They are slightly better than the known alternatives, but far from perfect. But if another target can get closer to human-level performance, that is significant.
While likely, the question asked if there was any improvement shown with other targets to validate that assumption. There is no benefit in thinking.
> And often query results must be 100% accurate and reliable.
It seems that is impossible. Even the human programmers struggle to reliably convert natural language to SQL according to the aforementioned test study. They are slightly better than the known alternatives, but far from perfect. But if another target can get closer to human-level performance, that is significant.