Experimental results show that retrieval grounding, constrained query generation, and interactive verification substantially improve constraint extraction accuracy, SQL executability, logical consistency, and multi-turn stability compared to baseline LLM-based approaches.
Abstract
StocksTalk is a voice-enabled conversational system for transforming spoken financial screening requests into executable and validated structured queries over real-world market data. The system combines streaming speech recognition, retrieval-augmented constraint extraction, schema-grounded LLM-based SQL generation, rule-based validation, and human-in-the-loop verification within an interactive dashboard. Unlike traditional template-driven financial assistants, StocksTalk exposes intermediate reasoning artifacts, including extracted constraints, normalized financial metrics, operator grounding, and generated queries, allowing users to inspect and refine each stage before execution. To evaluate the system, we curate a benchmark of 150 spoken financial prompts spanning multiple investment strategies and input noise conditions. Experimental results show that retrieval grounding, constrained query generation, and interactive verification substantially improve constraint extraction accuracy, SQL executability, logical consistency, and multi-turn stability compared to baseline LLM-based approaches. StocksTalk demonstrates how transparent, voice-driven interfaces can bridge natural language interaction and structured financial analysis, providing an effective framework for conversational stock screening and decision support.
The resulting prototype confirms that a cloud-hosted multimodal LLM, when combined with a minimal and well-structured web stack, can serve as a practical foundation for next-generation digital assistants suitable for customer support, education, and personal productivity applications.
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A unified taxonomy of 8 categories covering ambiguous and unanswerable questions is addressed, a multi-agent generation pipeline with a two-stage process (NLQ generation followed by SQL grounding) and an explicit Category Conformance validation stage are addressed.
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Large language models (LLMs) are increas- ingly deployed as long-horizon conversational agents, motivating growing interest in mem- ory systems. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate memory through QA-style probing rather than in-situ conversational usage. We introduce LOCOMO-CONV, a conversa- tional memory b...
This work presents a training-free framework that formulates SQL correction as a plan-guided, tree-structured debugging process that mitigates error accumulation during iterative refinement and demonstrates the effectiveness and stability of the approach in real-world deployments.
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The results indicate that for precise, evidence-grounded questions over chat archives, much of the benefit credited to elaborate memory structures is recoverable by giving an agent controllable search over the unmodified record, with no LLM-based index construction at all.
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