Text2Cypher Across Languages: Evaluating Foundational Models Beyond English

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21445v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:31:10 GMT
• Title: Text2Cypher Across Languages: Evaluating Foundational Models Beyond English
• Authors: Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy, William Tai,
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates the performance of foundational LLMs on the Text2Cypher task across multiple languages.<n>We create and release a multilingual test set by translating English questions into Spanish and Turkish while preserving the original Cypher queries.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have enabled natural language interfaces that translate user questions into database queries, such as Text2SQL, Text2SPARQL, and Text2Cypher. While these interfaces enhance database accessibility, most research today focuses solely on English, with limited evaluation in other languages. This paper investigates the performance of foundational LLMs on the Text2Cypher task across multiple languages. We create and release a multilingual test set by translating English questions into Spanish and Turkish while preserving the original Cypher queries, enabling fair cross-lingual comparison. We evaluate multiple foundational models using standardized prompts and metrics. Our results show a consistent performance pattern: highest on English, then Spanish, and lowest on Turkish. We attribute this to differences in training data availability and linguistic characteristics. Additionally, we explore the impact of translating task prompts into Spanish and Turkish. Results show little to no change in evaluation metrics, suggesting prompt translation has minor impact. Our findings highlight the need for more inclusive evaluation and development in multilingual query generation. Future work includes schema localization and fine-tuning across diverse languages.

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