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The output structure of database-like tables, consisting of values structured in horizontal rows and vertical columns identifiable by name, can cover a wide range of NLP tasks. Following this constatation, we propose a framework for…

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance in textual understanding and tabular reasoning tasks. However, their ability to comprehend and analyze hybrid text, containing textual and tabular data, remains unexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chongjian Yue , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Lun Du , Zhiming Ding , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

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

Researchers got success in mining the Web usage data effectively and efficiently. But representation of the mined patterns is often not in a form suitable for direct human consumption. Hence mechanisms and tools that can represent mined…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-09-01 Ratnesh Kumar Jain , Dr. Suresh Jain , Dr. R. S. Kasana

Table extraction (TE) is a key challenge in visual document understanding. Traditional approaches detect tables first, then recognize their structure. Recently, interest has surged in developing methods, such as vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Brandon Smock , Valerie Faucon-Morin , Max Sokolov , Libin Liang , Tayyibah Khanam , Amrit Ramesh , Maury Courtland

Tables have gained significant attention in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to their complex and flexible structure. Unlike linear text inputs, tables are two-dimensional, encompassing formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xiaofeng Wu , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Computer aided Tabular Data Extraction has always been a very challenging and error prone task because it demands both Spectral and Spatial Sanity of data. In this paper we discuss an approach for Tabular Data Extraction in the realm of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Saumya Banthia , Anantha Sharma , Ravi Mangipudi

Pool of knowledge available to the mankind depends on the source of learning resources, which can vary from ancient printed documents to present electronic material. The rapid conversion of material available in traditional libraries to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Akmal Jahan Mac , Roshan G Ragel

Scientific documents contain tables that list important information in a concise fashion. Structure and content extraction from tables embedded within PDF research documents is a very challenging task due to the existence of visual features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

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

Tables are an extremely powerful visual and interactive tool for structuring and manipulating data, making spreadsheet programs one of the most popular computer applications. In this paper we introduce and address the task of recommending…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Extracting information from tables in documents presents a significant challenge in many industries and in academic research. Existing methods which take a bottom-up approach of integrating lines into cells and rows or columns neglect the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Nataliya Le Vine , Matthew Zeigenfuse , Mark Rowan

Tabling for contextual abduction in logic programming has been introduced as a means to store previously obtained abductive solutions in one context to be reused in another context. This paper identifies a number of issues in the existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ridhwan Dewoprabowo , Ari Saptawijaya

Table extraction from document images is a challenging AI problem, and labelled data for many content domains is difficult to come by. Existing table extraction datasets often focus on scientific tables due to the vast amount of academic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ethan Bradley , Muhammad Roman , Karen Rafferty , Barry Devereux

Tabulated content is omnipresent in scientific literature. This work presents the R package *tableParser*, designed to extract and postprocess tables from NISO-JATS-encoded XML, HTML, DOCX, and, with limitations, PDF documents.…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-23 Ingmar Böschen

Tabular data is difficult to analyze and to search through, yielding for new tools and interfaces that would allow even non tech-savvy users to gain insights from open datasets without resorting to specialized data analysis tools or even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Svitlana Vakulenko , Vadim Savenkov

Named entity recognition and relation extraction are two important fundamental problems. Joint learning algorithms have been proposed to solve both tasks simultaneously, and many of them cast the joint task as a table-filling problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jue Wang , Wei Lu

With the growing abundance of repositories containing tabular data, discovering relevant tables for in-depth analysis remains a challenging task. Existing table discovery methods primarily retrieve desired tables based on a query table or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Information Extraction (IE) from the tables present in scientific articles is challenging due to complicated tabular representations and complex embedded text. This paper presents TabLeX, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Harsh Desai , Pratik Kayal , Mayank Singh