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A large amount of information is stored in data tables. Users can search for data tables using a keyword-based query. A table is composed primarily of data values that are organized in rows and columns providing implicit structural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Mohamed Trabelsi , Zhiyu Chen , Shuo Zhang , Brian D. Davison , Jeff Heflin

Tables are a powerful and popular tool for organizing and manipulating data. A vast number of tables can be found on the Web, which represents a valuable knowledge resource. The objective of this survey is to synthesize and present two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

In table-text open-domain question answering, a retriever system retrieves relevant evidence from tables and text to answer questions. Previous studies in table-text open-domain question answering have two common challenges: firstly, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Deokhyung Kang , Baikjin Jung , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Tables on the web constitute a valuable data source for many applications, like factual search and knowledge base augmentation. However, as genuine tables containing relational knowledge only account for a small proportion of tables on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Babette Bühler , Heiko Paulheim

We aim to provide table answers to keyword queries against knowledge bases. For queries referring to multiple entities, like "Washington cities population" and "Mel Gibson movies", it is better to represent each relevant answer as a table…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Mohan Yang , Bolin Ding , Surajit Chaudhuri , Kaushik Chakrabarti

Retrieving relevant tables from extensive databases for a given natural language query is essential for accurately answering questions in tasks such as text-to-SQL. Existing table retrieval approaches select a pre-determined set of k tables…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taehee Kim , Seungbin Yang , Jihwan Kim , Jaegul Choo

Enabling question answering over tables and databases in natural language has become a key capability in the democratization of insights from tabular data sources. These systems first require retrieval of data that is relevant to a given…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wojciech Kosiuk , Xingyu Ji , Yeounoh Chung , Fatma Özcan , Madelon Hulsebos

Table retrieval is essential for accessing information stored in structured tabular formats; however, it remains less explored than text retrieval. The content of the table primarily consists of phrases and words, which include a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

The goal of case-based retrieval is to assist physicians in the clinical decision making process, by finding relevant medical literature in large archives. We propose a research that aims at improving the effectiveness of case-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Stefano Marchesin

Now a day's, search engines are been most widely used for extracting information's from various resources throughout the world. Where, majority of searches lies in the field of biomedical for retrieving related documents from various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Jayanthi Manicassamy , P. Dhavachelvan

The Deep Web is constituted by data that are accessible through Web pages, but not readily indexable by search engines as they are returned in dynamic pages. In this paper we propose a conceptual framework for answering keyword queries on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Andrea Calì , Davide Martinenghi , Riccardo Torlone

Tables are an important form of structured data for both human and machine readers alike, providing answers to questions that cannot, or cannot easily, be found in texts. Recent work has designed special models and training paradigms for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zhiruo Wang , Zhengbao Jiang , Eric Nyberg , Graham Neubig

Pretrained contextualized language models such as BERT have achieved impressive results on various natural language processing benchmarks. Benefiting from multiple pretraining tasks and large scale training corpora, pretrained models can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhiyu Chen , Mohamed Trabelsi , Jeff Heflin , Yinan Xu , Brian D. Davison

Information extraction from semi-structured webpages provides valuable long-tailed facts for augmenting knowledge graph. Relational Web tables are a critical component containing additional entities and attributes of rich and diverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Daheng Wang , Prashant Shiralkar , Colin Lockard , Binxuan Huang , Xin Luna Dong , Meng Jiang

Open-domain table question answering aims to provide answers to a question by retrieving and extracting information from a large collection of tables. Existing studies of open-domain table QA either directly adopt text retrieval methods or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Nengzheng Jin , Dongfang Li , Junying Chen , Joanna Siebert , Qingcai Chen

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

Tabular data is frequently captured in image form across a wide range of real-world scenarios such as financial reports, handwritten records, and document scans. These visual representations pose unique challenges for machine understanding,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhuoyan Xu , Haoyang Fang , Boran Han , Bonan Min , Bernie Wang , Cuixiong Hu , Shuai Zhang

Increasing amounts of structured data can provide value for research and business if the relevant data can be located. Often the data is in a data lake without a consistent schema, making locating useful data challenging. Table search is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Michael Glass , Sugato Bagchi , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo

Since a vast number of tables can be easily collected from web pages, spreadsheets, PDFs, and various other document types, a flurry of table pre-training frameworks have been proposed following the success of text and images, and they have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Haoyu Dong , Zhoujun Cheng , Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Anda Zhou , Fan Zhou , Ao Liu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Wikipedia tables represent an important resource, where information is organized w.r.t table schemas consisting of columns. In turn each column, may contain instance values that point to other Wikipedia articles or primitive values (e.g.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Besnik Fetahu , Avishek Anand , Maria Koutraki