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Question Answering has recently received high attention from artificial intelligence communities due to the advancements in learning technologies. Early question answering models used rule-based approaches and moved to the statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 K. S. D. Ishwari , A. K. R. R. Aneeze , S. Sudheesan , H. J. D. A. Karunaratne , A. Nugaliyadde , Y. Mallawarrachchi

Semi-structured data, such as Infobox tables, often include temporal information about entities, either implicitly or explicitly. Can current NLP systems reason about such information in semi-structured tables? To tackle this question, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Vivek Gupta , Pranshu Kandoi , Mahek Bhavesh Vora , Shuo Zhang , Yujie He , Ridho Reinanda , Vivek Srikumar

Answering natural language questions over tables is usually seen as a semantic parsing task. To alleviate the collection cost of full logical forms, one popular approach focuses on weak supervision consisting of denotations instead of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jonathan Herzig , Paweł Krzysztof Nowak , Thomas Müller , Francesco Piccinno , Julian Martin Eisenschlos

Semi-structured tables, widely used in real-world applications (e.g., financial reports, medical records, transactional orders), often involve flexible and complex layouts (e.g., hierarchical headers and merged cells). These tables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zirui Tang , Boyu Niu , Xuanhe Zhou , Boxiu Li , Wei Zhou , Jiannan Wang , Guoliang Li , Xinyi Zhang , Fan Wu

Table reasoning with large language models (LLMs) plays a critical role in building intelligent systems capable of understanding and analyzing tabular data. Despite recent progress, existing methods still face key limitations: their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Huajian Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Yucong Luo , Xiaoyu Tao

This paper presents TableQuery, a novel tool for querying tabular data using deep learning models pre-trained to answer questions on free text. Existing deep learning methods for question answering on tabular data have various limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abhijith Neil Abraham , Fariz Rahman , Damanpreet Kaur

Existing approaches to constructing training data for Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks, such as for semi-structured table reasoning, are either via crowdsourcing or fully automatic methods. However, the former is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dibyakanti Kumar , Vivek Gupta , Soumya Sharma , Shuo Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach to translating natural language questions to SQL queries for given tables, which meets three requirements as a real-world data analysis application: cross-domain, multilingualism and enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yan Gao , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

This paper proposes a novel architecture to generate multi-hop answers to open domain questions that require information from texts and tables, using the Open Table-and-Text Question Answering dataset for validation and training. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Marcos M. José , Flávio N. Cação , Maria F. Ribeiro , Rafael M. Cheang , Paulo Pirozelli , Fabio G. Cozman

Rule-based models are attractive for various tasks because they inherently lead to interpretable and explainable decisions and can easily incorporate prior knowledge. However, such systems are difficult to apply to problems involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Leon Weber , Pasquale Minervini , Jannes Münchmeyer , Ulf Leser , Tim Rocktäschel

Recent work has shown that language models (LMs) have strong multi-step (i.e., procedural) reasoning capabilities. However, it is unclear whether LMs perform these tasks by cheating with answers memorized from pretraining corpus, or, via a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yifan Hou , Jiaoda Li , Yu Fei , Alessandro Stolfo , Wangchunshu Zhou , Guangtao Zeng , Antoine Bosselut , Mrinmaya Sachan

Large Language Models (LLMs) employing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting have broadened the scope for improving multi-step reasoning capabilities. We generally divide multi-step reasoning into two phases: path generation to generate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Nay Oo , Bryan Hooi

Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps empower intelligent machines by enhancing a better understanding of the human language for linguistic-based human-computer communication. Recent developments in computational power and the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Yaser Keneshloo , Nader Tavaf , Edward A. Fox

Process reward models (PRMs) enhance complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by evaluating candidate solutions step-by-step and selecting answers based on aggregated step scores. While effective in domains such as mathematics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Lei Tang , Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar

We describe a question answering model that applies to both images and structured knowledge bases. The model uses natural language strings to automatically assemble neural networks from a collection of composable modules. Parameters for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Jacob Andreas , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Dan Klein

Deep Learning methods employ multiple processing layers to learn hierarchial representations of data. They have already been deployed in a humongous number of applications and have produced state-of-the-art results. Recently with the growth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Sarvesh Patil

Current representations used in reasoning steps of large language models can mostly be categorized into two main types: (1) natural language, which is difficult to verify; and (2) non-natural language, usually programming code, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhongtao Miao , Kaiyan Zhao , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

We propose Neural Reasoner, a framework for neural network-based reasoning over natural language sentences. Given a question, Neural Reasoner can infer over multiple supporting facts and find an answer to the question in specific forms.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Baolin Peng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Kam-Fai Wong

Community Question Answering is the field of computational linguistics that deals with problems derived from the questions and answers posted to websites such as Quora or Stack Overflow. Among some of these problems we find the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Lucas Valentin