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Keeping track of all relevant recent publications and experimental results for a research area is a challenging task. Prior work has demonstrated the efficacy of information extraction models in various scientific areas. Recently, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Timo Pierre Schrader , Matteo Finco , Stefan Grünewald , Felix Hildebrand , Annemarie Friedrich

Document-to-table (Doc2Table) extraction derives structured tables from unstructured documents under a target schema, enabling reliable and verifiable SQL-based data analytics. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuxiang Guo , Zhuoran Du , Nan Tang , Kezheng Tang , Congcong Ge , Yunjun Gao

Transformer-based Language Models are widely used in Natural Language Processing related tasks. Thanks to their pre-training, they have been successfully adapted to Information Extraction in business documents. However, most pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Thibault Douzon , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia , Jérémy Espinas

Information representation as tables are compact and concise method that eases searching, indexing, and storage requirements. Extracting and cloning tables from parsable documents is easier and widely used, however industry still faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Smita Pallavi , Raj Ratn Pranesh , Sumit Kumar

Unpaired medical image synthesis aims to provide complementary information for an accurate clinical diagnostics, and address challenges in obtaining aligned multi-modal medical scans. Transformer-based models excel in imaging translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Yutong Xie , Bowen Zhang , Yuankai Qi , Zhibin Liao , Antonios Perperidis , Son Lam Phung , Johan W. Verjans , Minh-Son To

Clinical information extraction, which involves structuring clinical concepts from unstructured medical text, remains a challenging problem that could benefit from the inclusion of tabular background information available in electronic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Paloma Rabaey , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

Tabular medical records remain the most readily available data format for applying machine learning in healthcare. However, traditional data preprocessing ignores valuable contextual information in tables and requires substantial manual…

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of research works on the topic of form understanding in the context of scanned documents. We delve into recent advancements and breakthroughs in the field, highlighting the significance of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Daniel Eberharter , Zoe Pfister , Adam Jatowt

Machine-learning models are ubiquitous. In some domains, for instance, in medicine, the models' predictions must be interpretable. Decision trees, classification rules, and subgroup discovery are three broad categories of supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Vadim Arzamasov , Benjamin Jochum , Klemens Böhm

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have markedly enhanced the interpretation and processing of tabular data, introducing previously unimaginable capabilities. Despite these achievements, LLMs still encounter significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xianjie Wu , Jian Yang , Linzheng Chai , Ge Zhang , Jiaheng Liu , Xinrun Du , Di Liang , Daixin Shu , Xianfu Cheng , Tianzhen Sun , Guanglin Niu , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly exposed to data contamination, i.e., performance gains driven by prior exposure of test datasets rather than generalization. However, in the context of tabular data, this problem is largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Matteo Silvestri , Fabiano Veglianti , Flavio Giorgi , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

The task of table structure recognition aims to recognize the internal structure of a table, which is a key step to make machines understand tables. Currently, there are lots of studies on this task for different file formats such as ASCII…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zewen Chi , Heyan Huang , Heng-Da Xu , Houjin Yu , Wanxuan Yin , Xian-Ling Mao

In this paper, we propose DEXTER, an end to end system to extract information from tables present in medical health documents, such as electronic health records (EHR) and explanation of benefits (EOB). DEXTER consists of four sub-system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Nandhinee PR , Harinath Krishnamoorthy , Koushik Srivatsan , Anil Goyal , Sudarsun Santhiappan

A crucial component in the curation of KB for a scientific domain (e.g., materials science, foods & nutrition, fuels) is information extraction from tables in the domain's published research articles. To facilitate research in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Tanishq Gupta , Mohd Zaki , Devanshi Khatsuriya , Kausik Hira , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Mausam

We introduce TableLLM, a robust large language model (LLM) with 8 billion parameters, purpose-built for proficiently handling tabular data manipulation tasks, whether they are embedded within documents or spreadsheets, catering to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiaokang Zhang , Sijia Luo , Bohan Zhang , Zeyao Ma , Jing Zhang , Yang Li , Guanlin Li , Zijun Yao , Kangli Xu , Jinchang Zhou , Daniel Zhang-Li , Jifan Yu , Shu Zhao , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

Organizations are collecting increasingly large amounts of data for data driven decision making. These data are often dumped into a centralized repository, e.g., a data lake, consisting of thousands of structured and unstructured datasets.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Mohamed Y. Eltabakh , Mayuresh Kunjir , Ahmed Elmagarmid , Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

Document parsing (DP) transforms unstructured or semi-structured documents into structured, machine-readable representations, enabling downstream applications such as knowledge base construction and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).…

Evidence-based medicine, the practice in which healthcare professionals refer to the best available evidence when making decisions, forms the foundation of modern healthcare. However, it relies on labour-intensive systematic reviews, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jetsun Whitton , Anthony Hunter