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Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language to logic form. In question answering, semantic parsing can be used to map the question to logic form and execute the logic form to get the answer. One key problem for semantic parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at addressing straightforward reasoning tasks, they frequently struggle with difficulties when confronted by more complex multi-step reasoning due to a range of factors. Firstly, natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Kewei Cheng , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore Willke , Yizhou Sun

The first phase of table recognition is to detect the tabular area in a document. Subsequently, the tabular structures are recognized in the second phase in order to extract information from the respective cells. Table detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Adnan Afzal , Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. First, our model estimates the probability that word sequences in a document are ones that a human would pick when selecting candidate answers by training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sandeep Subramanian , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

Neural network models can now recognise images, understand text, translate languages, and play many human games at human or superhuman levels. These systems are highly abstracted, but are inspired by biological brains and use only…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-06 Katherine R. Storrs , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Understanding the connections between unstructured text and semi-structured table is an important yet neglected problem in natural language processing. In this work, we focus on content-based table retrieval. Given a query, the task is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Zhao Yan , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Junwei Bao , Yuanhua Lv , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

Generating structural query language (SQL) queries from natural language is a long-standing open problem. Answering a natural language question about a database table requires modeling complex interactions between the columns of the table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Table Question-Answering involves both understanding the natural language query and grounding it in the context of the input table to extract the relevant information. In this context, many methods have highlighted the benefits of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Raphaël Mouravieff , Benjamin Piwowarski , Sylvain Lamprier

Despite the significant improvements achieved by large language models (LLMs) in English reasoning tasks, these models continue to struggle with multilingual reasoning. Recent studies leverage a full-parameter and two-stage training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yuchun Fan , Yongyu Mu , Yilin Wang , Lei Huang , Junhao Ruan , Bei Li , Tong Xiao , Shujian Huang , Xiaocheng Feng , Jingbo Zhu

Although contemporary large language models (LMs) demonstrate impressive question-answering capabilities, their answers are typically the product of a single call to the model. This entails an unwelcome degree of opacity and compromises…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Antonia Creswell , Murray Shanahan

As deep learning systems are scaled up to many billions of parameters, relating their internal structure to external behaviors becomes very challenging. Although daunting, this problem is not new: Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists…

Large language models often struggle with complex long-horizon analytical tasks over unstructured tables, which typically feature hierarchical and bidirectional headers and non-canonical layouts. We formalize this challenge as Deep Tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Junnan Dong , Chuang Zhou , Zheng Yuan , Yifei Yu , Qiufeng Wang , Yinghui Li , Siyu An , Di Yin , Xing Sun , Feiyue Huang

Recent artificial neural networks that process natural language achieve unprecedented performance in tasks requiring sentence-level understanding. As such, they could be interesting models of the integration of linguistic information in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Sophie Arana , Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau , Peter Hagoort

In this paper, we propose a Neural Architecture Search strategy based on self supervision and semi-supervised learning for the task of semantic segmentation. Our approach builds an optimized neural network (NN) model for this task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Loïc Pauletto , Massih-Reza Amini , Nicolas Winckler

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language generation have introduced new ideas to the field of conversational agents. As a result, deep neural models such as sequence-to-sequence, Memory Networks, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

We propose a recurrent neural model that generates natural-language questions from documents, conditioned on answers. We show how to train the model using a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning. After teacher forcing for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Caglar Gulcehre , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Sandeep Subramanian , Saizheng Zhang , Adam Trischler

Advances in machine reading comprehension (MRC) rely heavily on the collection of large scale human-annotated examples in the form of (question, paragraph, answer) triples. In contrast, humans are typically able to generalize with only a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Qinyuan Ye , Xiao Huang , Elizabeth Boschee , Xiang Ren

Natural language understanding (NLU) of text is a fundamental challenge in AI, and it has received significant attention throughout the history of NLP research. This primary goal has been studied under different tasks, such as Question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Daniel Khashabi

Higher-level cognition includes logical reasoning and the ability of question answering with common sense. The RatioLog project addresses the problem of rational reasoning in deep question answering by methods from automated deduction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ulrich Furbach , Claudia Schon , Frieder Stolzenburg , Karl-Heinz Weis , Claus-Peter Wirth

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly focused on "reasoning" ability, a concept with many overlapping definitions in the LLM discourse. We take a more structured approach, distinguishing meta-level reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Nick Ferguson , Alan Bundy , Kwabena Nuamah