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Unsupervised text representation learning (TRL) is a fundamental task in natural language processing, which is beneficial for improving search and recommendations with the web's unlabeled texts. A recent empirical study finds that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ruize An , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie , Zhanyu Wu , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long

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

Recent approaches to data-to-text generation have shown great promise thanks to the use of large-scale datasets and the application of neural network architectures which are trained end-to-end. These models rely on representation learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ratish Puduppully , Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

The Data-to-Text task aims to generate human-readable text for describing some given structured data enabling more interpretability. However, the typical generation task is confined to a few particular domains since it requires well-aligned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zihao Fu , Bei Shi , Wai Lam , Lidong Bing , Zhiyuan Liu

Generating texts from structured data (e.g., a table) is important for various natural language processing tasks such as question answering and dialog systems. In recent studies, researchers use neural language models and encoder-decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Lei Sha , Lili Mou , Tianyu Liu , Pascal Poupart , Sujian Li , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Existing text recognition methods usually need large-scale training data. Most of them rely on synthetic training data due to the lack of annotated real images. However, there is a domain gap between the synthetic data and real data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingkun Yang , Minghui Liao , Pu Lu , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Hualin Luo , Qi Tian , Xiang Bai

This study discusses the effect of semi-supervised learning in combination with pretrained language models for data-to-text generation. It is not known whether semi-supervised learning is still helpful when a large-scale language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chris van der Lee , Thiago Castro Ferreira , Chris Emmery , Travis Wiltshire , Emiel Krahmer

Structured (tabular) data in the preclinical and clinical domains contains valuable information about individuals and an efficient table-to-text summarization system can drastically reduce manual efforts to condense this data into reports.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Heng-Yi Wu , Jingqing Zhang , Julia Ive , Tong Li , Vibhor Gupta , Bingyuan Chen , Yike Guo

Recent advancements in self-attention neural network architectures have raised the bar for open-ended text generation. Yet, while current methods are capable of producing a coherent text which is several hundred words long, attaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Eyal Orbach , Yoav Goldberg

Existing work on tabular representation learning jointly models tables and associated text using self-supervised objective functions derived from pretrained language models such as BERT. While this joint pretraining improves tasks involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hiroshi Iida , Dung Thai , Varun Manjunatha , Mohit Iyyer

The task of graph-to-text generation aims at producing sentences that preserve the meaning of input graphs. As a crucial defect, the current state-of-the-art models may mess up or even drop the core structural information of input graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Linfeng Song , Ante Wang , Jinsong Su , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu , Yubin Ge , Dong Yu

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very popular for exploring data and communicating insights. Interpreting and making sense of such visualizations can be challenging for some people, such as those who are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jason Obeid , Enamul Hoque

Table reasoning, encompassing tasks such as table question answering, fact verification, and text-to-SQL, requires precise understanding of structured tabular data, coupled with numerical computation and code manipulation for effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Fangyu Lei , Jinxiang Meng , Yiming Huang , Tinghong Chen , Yun Zhang , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Neural data-to-text generation models have achieved significant advancement in recent years. However, these models have two shortcomings: the generated texts tend to miss some vital information, and they often generate descriptions that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Kai Chen , Fayuan Li , Baotian Hu , Weihua Peng , Qingcai Chen , Hong Yu

Logical Natural Language Generation, i.e., generating textual descriptions that can be logically entailed by a structured table, has been a challenge due to the low fidelity of the generation. \citet{chen2020logic2text} have addressed this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ao Liu , Congjian Luo , Naoaki Okazaki

We propose a recurrent neural model that generates natural-language questions from documents, conditioned on answers. We show how to train the model using a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning. After teacher forcing for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Caglar Gulcehre , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Sandeep Subramanian , Saizheng Zhang , Adam Trischler

The task of table summarization involves generating text that both succinctly and accurately represents the table or a specific set of highlighted cells within a table. While significant progress has been made in table to text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Deepanway Ghosal , Preksha Nema , Aravindan Raghuveer

Recent trends in natural language processing using pretraining have shifted focus towards pretraining and fine-tuning approaches for text generation. Often the focus has been on task-agnostic approaches that generalize the language modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simoes , Ji Ma , Hannah Craighead , Ryan Mcdonald

Self-supervised representation learning solves auxiliary prediction tasks (known as pretext tasks) without requiring labeled data to learn useful semantic representations. These pretext tasks are created solely using the input features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jason D. Lee , Qi Lei , Nikunj Saunshi , Jiacheng Zhuo

Self-supervised learning has been shown to be very effective in learning useful representations, and yet much of the success is achieved in data types such as images, audio, and text. The success is mainly enabled by taking advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Talip Ucar , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Lindsay Edwards