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Controlled table-to-text generation seeks to generate natural language descriptions for highlighted subparts of a table. Previous SOTA systems still employ a sequence-to-sequence generation method, which merely captures the table as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fei Wang , Zhewei Xu , Pedro Szekely , Muhao Chen

Self-supervised representation learning methods have achieved significant success in computer vision and natural language processing, where data samples exhibit explicit spatial or semantic dependencies. However, applying these methods to…

Fact checking is a challenging task because verifying the truthfulness of a claim requires reasoning about multiple retrievable evidence. In this work, we present a method suitable for reasoning about the semantic-level structure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Wanjun Zhong , Jingjing Xu , Duyu Tang , Zenan Xu , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

Learning to construct text representations in end-to-end systems can be difficult, as natural languages are highly compositional and task-specific annotated datasets are often limited in size. Methods for directly supervising language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Marek Rei , Anders Søgaard

Recent advances in deep learning significantly boost the performance of salient object detection (SOD) at the expense of labeling larger-scale per-pixel annotations. To relieve the burden of labor-intensive labeling, deep unsupervised SOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pengxiang Yan , Ziyi Wu , Mengmeng Liu , Kun Zeng , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Table foundation models bring high hopes to data science: pre-trained on tabular data to embark knowledge or priors, they should facilitate downstream tasks on tables. One specific challenge is that of data semantics: numerical entries take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Myung Jun Kim , Félix Lefebvre , Gaëtan Brison , Alexandre Perez-Lebel , Gaël Varoquaux

Saliency maps can explain a neural model's predictions by identifying important input features. They are difficult to interpret for laypeople, especially for instances with many features. In order to make them more accessible, we formalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Nils Feldhus , Leonhard Hennig , Maximilian Dustin Nasert , Christopher Ebert , Robert Schwarzenberg , Sebastian Möller

The last decades have seen great progress in saliency prediction, with the success of deep neural networks that are able to encode high-level semantics. Yet, while humans have the innate capability in leveraging their knowledge to decide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yifeng Zhang , Ming Jiang , Qi Zhao

We present the TAPAS contribution to the Shared Task on Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables (SemEval 2021 Task 9, Wang et al. (2021)). SEM TAB FACT Task A is a classification task of recognizing if a statement is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Thomas Müller , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Syrine Krichene

The aim of Logic2Text is to generate controllable and faithful texts conditioned on tables and logical forms, which not only requires a deep understanding of the tables and logical forms, but also warrants symbolic reasoning over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chengyuan Liu , Leilei Gan , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Existing salient object detection methods are capable of predicting binary maps that highlight visually salient regions. However, these methods are limited in their ability to differentiate the relative importance of multiple objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mengke Song , Linfeng Li , Dunquan Wu , Wenfeng Song , Chenglizhao Chen

Judging the veracity of a sentence making one or more claims is an important and challenging problem with many dimensions. The recent FEVER task asked participants to classify input sentences as either SUPPORTED, REFUTED or NotEnoughInfo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Padia , Francis Ferraro , Tim Finin

Determining and ranking the most salient entities in a text is critical for user-facing systems, especially as users increasingly rely on models to interpret long documents they only partially read. Graded entity salience addresses this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jessica Lin , Amir Zeldes

In text documents such as news articles, the content and key events usually revolve around a subset of all the entities mentioned in a document. These entities, often deemed as salient entities, provide useful cues of the aboutness of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Marco Ponza , Atharva Tendle , Anant Gupta , Rebecca Jiang , Xingyu Lu , Qian Zhao , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro

This paper introduces the task of factual error correction: performing edits to a claim so that the generated rewrite is better supported by evidence. This extends the well-studied task of fact verification by providing a mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

This paper introduces the task of factual error correction: performing edits to a claim so that the generated rewrite is better supported by evidence. This extends the well-studied task of fact verification by providing a mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

Predictive modeling on tabular data is the cornerstone of many real-world applications. Although gradient boosting machines and some recent deep models achieve strong performance on tabular data, they often lack interpretability. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tommy Xu , Zhitian Zhang , Xiangyu Sun , Lauren Kelly Zung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

Pretrained transformer-based models such as BERT have demonstrated state-of-the-art predictive performance when adapted into a range of natural language processing tasks. An open problem is how to improve the faithfulness of explanations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 George Chrysostomou , Nikolaos Aletras

Attention mechanism plays a dominant role in the sequence generation models and has been used to improve the performance of machine translation and abstractive text summarization. Different from neural machine translation, in the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Zhongyu Wei , Wai Lam

Building upon the SALT benchmark for relational prediction (Klein et al., 2024), we introduce SALT-KG, a benchmark for semantics-aware learning on enterprise tables. SALT-KG extends SALT by linking its multi-table transactional data with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Isaiah Onando Mulang , Felix Sasaki , Tassilo Klein , Jonas Kolk , Nikolay Grechanov , Johannes Hoffart