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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.…

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Automatic table detection in PDF documents has achieved a great success but tabular data extraction are still challenging due to the integrity and noise issues in detected table areas. The accurate data extraction is extremely crucial in…

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Document parsing from scanned images into structured formats remains a significant challenge due to its complexly intertwined elements such as text paragraphs, figures, formulas, and tables. Existing supervised fine-tuning methods often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Baode Wang , Biao Wu , Weizhen Li , Meng Fang , Zuming Huang , Jun Huang , Haozhe Wang , Yanjie Liang , Ling Chen , Wei Chu , Yuan Qi

Workbook-scale spreadsheet understanding is increasingly important for language-model-based data analysis agents, but remains challenging because relevant information is often distributed across multiple sheets with heterogeneous schemas,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiming Lei , Yiqi Wang , Yujia Zhang , Bo Guan , Depei Zhu , Chunhui Wang , Zhuonan Hao , Tianyu Shi

Answering natural language questions over tables is usually seen as a semantic parsing task. To alleviate the collection cost of full logical forms, one popular approach focuses on weak supervision consisting of denotations instead of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jonathan Herzig , Paweł Krzysztof Nowak , Thomas Müller , Francesco Piccinno , Julian Martin Eisenschlos

The first phase of table recognition is to detect the tabular area in a document. Subsequently, the tabular structures are recognized in the second phase in order to extract information from the respective cells. Table detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Adnan Afzal , Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Most of the previous methods for table recognition rely on training datasets containing many richly annotated table images. Detailed table image annotation, e.g., cell or text bounding box annotation, however, is costly and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nam Tuan Ly , Atsuhiro Takasu , Phuc Nguyen , Hideaki Takeda

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

Tabular data in digital documents is widely used to express compact and important information for readers. However, it is challenging to parse tables from unstructured digital documents, such as PDFs and images, into machine-readable format…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

Table extraction has long been a pervasive problem in financial services. This is more challenging in the image domain, where content is locked behind cumbersome pixel format. Luckily, advances in deep learning for image segmentation, OCR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 William Watson , Bo Liu

Important information that relates to a specific topic in a document is often organized in tabular format to assist readers with information retrieval and comparison, which may be difficult to provide in natural language. However, tabular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xu Zhong , Elaheh ShafieiBavani , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

Text alignment finds application in tasks such as citation recommendation and plagiarism detection. Existing alignment methods operate at a single, predefined level and cannot learn to align texts at, for example, sentence and document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xuhui Zhou , Nikolaos Pappas , Noah A. Smith

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

Understanding tables is an important aspect of natural language understanding. Existing models for table understanding require linearization of the table structure, where row or column order is encoded as an unwanted bias. Such spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jingfeng Yang , Aditya Gupta , Shyam Upadhyay , Luheng He , Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul

Tables are widely used in several types of documents since they can bring important information in a structured way. In scientific papers, tables can sum up novel discoveries and summarize experimental results, making the research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Gemelli , Emanuele Vivoli , Simone Marinai

Tabular structures are used to present crucial information in a structured and crisp manner. Detection of such regions is of great importance for proper understanding of a document. Tabular structures can be of various layouts and types.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Soumyadeep Dey , Jayanta Mukhopadhyay , Shamik Sural

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

Spreadsheets are the go-to tool for computerized calculation and modelling, but are hard to comprehend and adapt after reaching a certain complexity. In general, cognition of complex systems is facilitated by having a higher order mental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Patrick Koch

Tables are information-rich structured objects in document images. While significant work has been done in localizing tables as graphic objects in document images, only limited attempts exist on table structure recognition. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sachin Raja , Ajoy Mondal , C. V. Jawahar

Tables store rich numerical data, but numerical reasoning over tables is still a challenge. In this paper, we find that the spreadsheet formula, which performs calculations on numerical values in tables, is naturally a strong supervision of…

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