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Companies and individuals produce numerous tabular data. The objective of this position paper is to draw up the challenges posed by the automatic integration of data in the form of tables so that they can be cross-analyzed. We provide a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yuzhao Yang , Jérôme Darmont , Franck Ravat , Olivier Teste

Question Answering over Tabular Data (Table QA) presents unique challenges due to the diverse structure, size, and data types of real-world tables. The SemEval 2025 Task 8 (DataBench) introduced a benchmark composed of large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Rishit Tyagi , Mohit Gupta , Rahul Bouri

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a large amount of world's knowledge is stored in structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Alexander Hanbo Li , Patrick Ng , Peng Xu , Henghui Zhu , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

With the growing number and size of Linked Data datasets, it is crucial to make the data accessible and useful for users without knowledge of formal query languages. Two approaches towards this goal are knowledge graph visualization and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Dmitry Pavlov , Yury Emelyanov , Alexey Morozov

Table Question Answering (TQA) aims at composing an answer to a question based on tabular data. While prior research has shown that TQA models lack robustness, understanding the underlying cause and nature of this issue remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar , Heike Adel , Annemarie Friedrich

Tabular data represent one of the most prevalent data formats in applied machine learning, largely because they accommodate a broad spectrum of real-world problems. Existing literature has studied many of the shortcomings of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Guri Zabërgja , Arlind Kadra , Christian M. M. Frey , Josif Grabocka

Existing question answering datasets focus on dealing with homogeneous information, based either only on text or KB/Table information alone. However, as human knowledge is distributed over heterogeneous forms, using homogeneous information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Zhiyu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Hong Wang , William Wang

We introduce Talk to Papers, which exploits the recent open-domain question answering (QA) techniques to improve the current experience of academic search. It's designed to enable researchers to use natural language queries to find precise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Tianchang Zhao , Kyusong Lee

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

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

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

We present a comprehensive study of chart visual question-answering(QA) task, to address the challenges faced in comprehending and extracting data from chart visualizations within documents. Despite efforts to tackle this problem using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Saleem Ahmed , Bhavin Jawade , Shubham Pandey , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

Tabular data comprising rows (samples) with the same set of columns (attributes, is one of the most widely used data-type among various industries, including financial services, health care, research, retail, and logistics, to name a few.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Rajat Singh , Srikanta Bedathur

Reasoning about tabular information presents unique challenges to modern NLP approaches which largely rely on pre-trained contextualized embeddings of text. In this paper, we study these challenges through the problem of tabular natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 J. Neeraja , Vivek Gupta , Vivek Srikumar

Natural language question answering (QA) over structured data sources such as tables and knowledge graphs have been widely investigated, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years. The main solutions include question to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wen Zhang , Long Jin , Yushan Zhu , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhiwei Huang , Junjie Wang , Yin Hua , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen

Tabular data, widely used in various applications such as industrial control systems, finance, and supply chain, often contains complex interrelationships among its attributes. Data disentanglement seeks to transform such data into latent…

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…

Chart question answering (CQA) is a task used for assessing chart comprehension, which is fundamentally different from understanding natural images. CQA requires analyzing the relationships between the textual and the visual components of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Dani Lischinski

In this paper, we describe a dataset and baseline result for a question answering that utilizes web tables. It contains commonly asked questions on the web and their corresponding answers found in tables on websites. Our dataset is novel in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Bhavya Karki , Fan Hu , Nithin Haridas , Suhail Barot , Zihua Liu , Lucile Callebert , Matthias Grabmair , Anthony Tomasic

Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic operations. They also commonly refer to visual features of a chart in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ahmed Masry , Do Xuan Long , Jia Qing Tan , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque