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Privacy policies are long and complex documents that are difficult for users to read and understand, and yet, they have legal effects on how user data is collected, managed and used. Ideally, we would like to empower users to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Abhilasha Ravichander , Alan W Black , Shomir Wilson , Thomas Norton , Norman Sadeh

Tabular representation learning has recently gained a lot of attention. However, existing approaches only learn a representation from a single table, and thus ignore the potential to learn from the full structure of relational databases,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Liane Vogel , Benjamin Hilprecht , Carsten Binnig

One of the most intriguing features of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) challenge is the unpredictability of the questions. Extracting the information required to answer them demands a variety of image operations from detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Tables in Web documents are pervasive and can be directly used to answer many of the queries searched on the Web, motivating their integration in question answering. Very often information presented in tables is succinct and hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Vicky Zayats , Kristina Toutanova , Mari Ostendorf

Many users communicate with chatbots and AI assistants in order to help them with various tasks. A key component of the assistant is the ability to understand and answer a user's natural language questions for question-answering (QA).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Anthony Colas , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Moumita Sinha , Doo Soon Kim

Open book question answering is a type of natural language based QA (NLQA) where questions are expected to be answered with respect to a given set of open book facts, and common knowledge about a topic. Recently a challenge involving such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Arindam Mitra , Chitta Baral

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that has received increasing attention from both the computer vision and the natural language processing communities. Given an image and a question in natural language, it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

With social media becoming increasingly pop-ular on which lots of news and real-time eventsare reported, developing automated questionanswering systems is critical to the effective-ness of many applications that rely on real-time knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Wenhan Xiong , Jiawei Wu , Hong Wang , Vivek Kulkarni , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang

Choropleth maps are a common visual representation for region-specific tabular data and are used in a number of different venues (newspapers, articles, etc). These maps are human-readable but are often challenging to deal with when trying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Shuaichen Chang , David Palzer , Jialin Li , Eric Fosler-Lussier , Ningchuan Xiao

Tabular data analysis is crucial in many scenarios, yet efficiently identifying the most relevant data analysis queries and results for a new table remains a significant challenge. The complexity of tabular data, diverse analytical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Deyin Yi , Yihao Liu , Lang Cao , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

In an era of rapidly advancing data-driven applications, there is a growing demand for data in both research and practice. Synthetic data have emerged as an alternative when no real data is available (e.g., due to privacy regulations).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Maria F. Davila R. , Sven Groen , Fabian Panse , Wolfram Wingerath

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Synthetic data is often positioned as a solution to replace sensitive fixed-size datasets with a source of unlimited matching data, freed from privacy concerns. There has been much progress in synthetic data generation over the last decade,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Graham Cormode , Samuel Maddock , Enayat Ullah , Shripad Gade

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Modern systems produce a large volume of logs to record run-time status and events. System operators use these raw logs to track a system in order to obtain some useful information to diagnose system anomalies. One of the most important…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Shaohan Huang , Yi Liu , Carol Fung , Jiaxing Qi , Hailong Yang , Zhongzhi Luan

Question Answering (QA) is not a new research field in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However in recent years, QA has been a subject of growing study. Nowadays, most of the QA systems have a similar pipelined architecture and each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Ricardo Pires

Retrieval-augmented question-answering systems combine retrieval techniques with large language models to provide answers that are more accurate and informative. Many existing toolkits allow users to quickly build such systems using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiao Yu , Yunan Lu , Zhou Yu

In this paper, we observe that semi-structured tabulated text is ubiquitous; understanding them requires not only comprehending the meaning of text fragments, but also implicit relationships between them. We argue that such data can prove…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Vivek Gupta , Maitrey Mehta , Pegah Nokhiz , Vivek Srikumar

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel