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Recent neural models have shown significant progress on the problem of generating short descriptive texts conditioned on a small number of database records. In this work, we suggest a slightly more difficult data-to-text generation task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Sam Wiseman , Stuart M. Shieber , Alexander M. Rush

To improve performance in visual feature representation from photos or videos for practical applications, we generally require large-scale human-annotated labeled data while training deep neural networks. However, the cost of gathering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhenyuan Lu

Structured tabular data is a fundamental data type in numerous fields, and the capacity to reason over tables is crucial for answering questions and validating hypotheses. However, constructing labeled data for complex reasoning tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zhenyu Li , Xiuxing Li , Sunqi Fan , Jianyong Wang

Task specific fine-tuning of a pre-trained neural language model using a custom softmax output layer is the de facto approach of late when dealing with document classification problems. This technique is not adequate when labeled examples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Natraj Raman , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Sameena Shah , Manuela Veloso

Neural networks have recently achieved human-level performance on various challenging natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but it is notoriously difficult to understand why a neural network produced a particular prediction. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Sharan Narang , Colin Raffel , Katherine Lee , Adam Roberts , Noah Fiedel , Karishma Malkan

Tables convey factual and quantitative data with implicit conventions created by humans that are often challenging for machines to parse. Prior work on table recognition (TR) has mainly centered around complex task-specific combinations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 ShengYun Peng , Aishwarya Chakravarthy , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu

While image-text representation learning has become very popular in recent years, existing models tend to lack spatial awareness and have limited direct applicability for dense understanding tasks. For this reason, self-supervised…

In this paper, we present a generative model to generate a natural language sentence describing a table region, e.g., a row. The model maps a row from a table to a continuous vector and then generates a natural language sentence by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Junwei Bao , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Zhao Yan , Yuanhua Lv , Ming Zhou , Tiejun Zhao

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Self-supervised learning is an effective way for label-free model pre-training, especially in the video domain where labeling is expensive. Existing self-supervised works in the video domain use varying experimental setups to demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Akash Kumar , Ashlesha Kumar , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating text to help people conveniently obtain salient information in tables. Recent works explicitly decompose the generation process into content planning and surface generation stages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Liang Li , Ruiying Geng , Chengyang Fang , Bing Li , Can Ma , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li

Text classification is one of the most widely studied tasks in natural language processing. Motivated by the principle of compositionality, large multilayer neural network models have been employed for this task in an attempt to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Devendra Singh Sachan , Manzil Zaheer , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We follow the step-by-step approach to neural data-to-text generation we proposed in Moryossef et al (2019), in which the generation process is divided into a text-planning stage followed by a plan-realization stage. We suggest four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Amit Moryossef , Ido Dagan , Yoav Goldberg

Generating sports game reports from structured tables is a complex table-to-text task that demands both precise data interpretation and fluent narrative generation. Traditional model-based approaches require large, annotated datasets, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shang-Hsuan Chiang , Tsan-Tsung Yang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

This work reframes the Text-to-SQL task as a pathway for teaching large language models (LLMs) to reason over and manipulate tabular data--moving beyond the traditional focus on query generation. We propose a two-stage framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Julien Fauqueur

Self-supervised learning enables the training of large neural models without the need for large, labeled datasets. It has been generating breakthroughs in several fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, biology, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Luis Lugo , Valentin Vielzeuf

The sheer volume of scientific experimental results and complex technical statements, often presented in tabular formats, presents a formidable barrier to individuals acquiring preferred information. The realms of scientific reasoning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhixin Guo , Jianping Zhou , Jiexing Qi , Mingxuan Yan , Ziwei He , Guanjie Zheng , Zhouhan Lin , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Self-supervised learning is currently gaining a lot of attention, as it allows neural networks to learn robust representations from large quantities of unlabeled data. Additionally, multi-task learning can further improve representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network `skill'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Todor Mihaylov , Zornitsa Kozareva , Anette Frank