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We present a generative model to map natural language questions into SQL queries. Existing neural network based approaches typically generate a SQL query word-by-word, however, a large portion of the generated results are incorrect or not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jianshu Ji , Guihong Cao , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Ming Zhou

Existing datasets for tabular question answering typically focus exclusively on text within cells. However, real-world data is inherently multimodal, often blending images such as symbols, faces, icons, patterns, and charts with textual…

In recent years, advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have been fueled by deep learning techniques, particularly through the utilization of powerful computing resources like GPUs and TPUs. Models such as BERT and GPT-3, trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shuning Huo , Yafei Xiang , Hanyi Yu , Mengran Zhu , Yulu Gong

This paper presents a precursory yet novel approach to the question answering task using structural decomposition. Our system first generates linguistic structures such as syntactic and semantic trees from text, decomposes them into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Tomasz Jurczyk , Jinho D. Choi

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

In this paper we present a novel Neural Network algorithm for conducting semi-supervised learning for sequence labeling tasks arranged in a linguistically motivated hierarchy. This relationship is exploited to regularise the representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Jonathan Godwin , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

Distilling large, unstructured text into a structured, condensed form such as tables is an open research problem. One of the primary challenges in automatically generating tables is ensuring their syntactic validity. Prior approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Anirudh Sundar , Christopher Richardson , Larry Heck

Large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters exhibit in-context learning abilities, enabling few-shot learning on tasks that the model was not specifically trained for. Traditional models achieve breakthrough performance on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aske Plaat , Annie Wong , Suzan Verberne , Joost Broekens , Niki van Stein , Thomas Back

With the rising popularity of user-generated genealogical family trees, new genealogical information systems have been developed. State-of-the-art natural question answering algorithms use deep neural network (DNN) architecture based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Omri Suissa , Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet , Avshalom Elmalech

The abundant semi-structured data on the Web, such as HTML-based tables and lists, provide commercial search engines a rich information source for question answering (QA). Different from plain text passages in Web documents, Web tables and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xingyao Zhang , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Ming Gong , Lijie Wen , Daxin Jiang

We train a language model (LM) to robustly answer multistep questions by generating and answering sub-questions. We propose Chain-of-Questions, a framework that trains a model to generate sub-questions and sub-answers one at a time by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wang Zhu , Jesse Thomason , Robin Jia

We propose a neural network-based approach to automatically learn and classify natural language questions into its corresponding template using recursive neural networks. An obvious advantage of using neural networks is the elimination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ram G Athreya , Srividya Bansal , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Ricardo Usbeck

Step-by-step reasoning is widely used to enhance the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) in complex problems. Evaluating the quality of reasoning traces is crucial for understanding and improving LLM reasoning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinu Lee , Julia Hockenmaier

In this position paper, we propose a reasoning framework that can model the reasoning process underlying natural language inferences. The framework is based on the semantic tableau method, a well-studied proof system in formal logic. Like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Lasha Abzianidze

Answering science questions posed in natural language is an important AI challenge. Answering such questions often requires non-trivial inference and knowledge that goes beyond factoid retrieval. Yet, most systems for this task are based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Daniel Khashabi , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark , Oren Etzioni , Dan Roth

Deep Learning models enjoy considerable success in Natural Language Processing. While deep architectures produce useful representations that lead to improvements in various tasks, they are often difficult to interpret. This makes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Christian Scheible , Hinrich Schuetze

Deep learning has become the dominant approach for creating high capacity, scalable models across diverse data modalities. However, because these models rely on a large number of learned parameters, tightly couple feature extraction with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adam Gould , Francesca Toni

Supervised Dictionary Learning has gained much interest in the recent decade and has shown significant performance improvements in image classification. However, in general, supervised learning needs a large number of labelled samples per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Khanh-Hung Tran , Fred-Maurice Ngole-Mboula , Jean-Luc Starck , Vincent Prost

Tabular reasoning involves multi-step information extraction and logical inference over tabular data. While recent advances have leveraged large language models (LLMs) for reasoning over structured tables, such high-quality textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jun-Peng Jiang , Yu Xia , Hai-Long Sun , Shiyin Lu , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

What does it take to design a machine that learns to answer natural questions about a video? A Video QA system must simultaneously understand language, represent visual content over space-time, and iteratively transform these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran