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Designing a reliable natural language (NL) interface for querying tables has been a longtime goal of researchers in both the data management and natural language processing (NLP) communities. Such an interface receives as input an NL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jonathan Berant , Daniel Deutch , Amir Globerson , Tova Milo , Tomer Wolfson

We present a neurosymbolic approach, TEN, for extracting tabular data from semistructured input text. This task is particularly challenging for text input that does not use special delimiters consistently to separate columns and rows.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Nikita Mehrotra , Aayush Kumar , Sumit Gulwani , Arjun Radhakrishna , Ashish Tiwari

Natural Language Inference (NLI) models have been used in various ways to improve the factuality of LLM outputs. This is typically done by applying an NLI model to judge whether the model output is entailed from the supposed evidence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sapir Harary , Eran Hirsch , Aviv Slobodkin , David Wan , Mohit Bansal , Ido Dagan

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether a premise entails a hypothesis. NLI with temporal order is a challenging task because tense and aspect are complex linguistic phenomena involving interactions with temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Tomoki Sugimoto , Hitomi Yanaka

When evaluating an answer choice for Reading Comprehension task, other answer choices available for the question and the answers of related questions about the same paragraph often provide valuable information. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rajkumar Pujari , Dan Goldwasser

Natural language inference (NLI) aims to determine the logical relationship between two sentences, such as Entailment, Contradiction, and Neutral. In recent years, deep learning models have become a prevailing approach to NLI, but they lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zijun Wu , Zi Xuan Zhang , Atharva Naik , Zhijian Mei , Mauajama Firdaus , Lili Mou

Natural language inference (NLI) requires models to learn and apply commonsense knowledge. These reasoning abilities are particularly important for explainable NLI systems that generate a natural language explanation in addition to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hendrik Schuff , Hsiu-Yu Yang , Heike Adel , Ngoc Thang Vu

Nature language inference (NLI) task is a predictive task of determining the inference relationship of a pair of natural language sentences. With the increasing popularity of NLI, many state-of-the-art predictive models have been proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Haohan Wang , Da Sun , Eric P. Xing

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of various LLMs in interpreting tabular data through different prompting strategies and data formats. Our analyses extend across six benchmarks for table-related tasks such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Naihao Deng , Zhenjie Sun , Ruiqi He , Aman Sikka , Yulong Chen , Lin Ma , Yue Zhang , Rada Mihalcea

The widely studied task of Natural Language Inference (NLI) requires a system to recognize whether one piece of text is textually entailed by another, i.e. whether the entirety of its meaning can be inferred from the other. In current NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sihao Chen , Senaka Buthpitiya , Alex Fabrikant , Dan Roth , Tal Schuster

In this position paper, we propose a reasoning framework that can model the reasoning process underlying natural language inferences. The framework is based on the semantic tableau method, a well-studied proof system in formal logic. Like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Lasha Abzianidze

In this work we use the recent advances in representation learning to propose a neural architecture for the problem of natural language inference. Our approach is aligned to mimic how a human does the natural language inference process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Biswajit Paria , K. M. Annervaz , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Ankush Chatterjee , Sanjay Podder

Attributional inference, the ability to predict latent intentions behind observed actions, is a critical yet underexplored capability for large language models (LLMs) operating in multi-agent environments. Traditional natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xin Quan , Jiafeng Xiong , Marco Valentino , André Freitas

Numbers are crucial for various real-world domains such as finance, economics, and science. Thus, understanding and reasoning with numbers are essential skills for language models to solve different tasks. While different numerical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mubashara Akhtar , Abhilash Shankarampeta , Vivek Gupta , Arpit Patil , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

Large-scale datasets for natural language inference are created by presenting crowd workers with a sentence (premise), and asking them to generate three new sentences (hypotheses) that it entails, contradicts, or is logically neutral with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Suchin Gururangan , Swabha Swayamdipta , Omer Levy , Roy Schwartz , Samuel R. Bowman , Noah A. Smith

To build robust question answering systems, we need the ability to verify whether answers to questions are truly correct, not just "good enough" in the context of imperfect QA datasets. We explore the use of natural language inference (NLI)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jifan Chen , Eunsol Choi , Greg Durrett

Logic reasoning is a significant ability of human intelligence and also an important task in artificial intelligence. The existing logic reasoning methods, quite often, need to design some reasoning patterns beforehand. This has led to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Qian Guo , Yuhua Qian , Xinyan Liang , Yanhong She , Deyu Li , Jiye Liang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. While NLI has developed many sub-directions such as sentence-level NLI, document-level NLI and cross-lingual NLI, Cross-Document Cross-Lingual NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mengying Yuan , Wenhao Wang , Zixuan Wang , Yujie Huang , Kangli Wei , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Reviewing contracts is a time-consuming procedure that incurs large expenses to companies and social inequality to those who cannot afford it. In this work, we propose "document-level natural language inference (NLI) for contracts", a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yuta Koreeda , Christopher D. Manning

Human vision is able to compensate imperfections in sensory inputs from the real world by reasoning based on prior knowledge about the world. Machine learning has had a significant impact on computer vision due to its inherent ability in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Briti Gangopadhyay , Somnath Hazra , Pallab Dasgupta