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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhuoyan Xu , Haoyang Fang , Boran Han , Bonan Min , Bernie Wang , Cuixiong Hu , Shuai Zhang

High-quality Web tables are rich sources of information that can be used to populate Knowledge Graphs (KG). The focus of this paper is an evaluation of methods for table-to-class annotation, which is a sub-task of Table Interpretation (TI).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Mitchell Joblin , Volker Tresp

The abundance of the data in the Internet facilitates the improvement of extraction and processing tools. The trend in the open data publishing encourages the adoption of structured formats like CSV and RDF. However, there is still a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Mikhail Galkin , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Sören Auer

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to convert tabular images into a machine-readable format, where a visual encoder extracts image features and a textual decoder generates table-representing tokens. Existing approaches use classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 ShengYun Peng , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

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

Recently, table structure recognition has achieved impressive progress with the help of deep graph models. Most of them exploit single visual cues of tabular elements or simply combine visual cues with other modalities via early fusion to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hao Liu , Xin Li , Bing Liu , Deqiang Jiang , Yinsong Liu , Bo Ren

Tabular data underpins decisions across science, industry, and public services. Despite rapid progress, advances in deep learning have not fully carried over to the tabular domain, where gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) remain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 David Bonet , Marçal Comajoan Cara , Alvaro Calafell , Daniel Mas Montserrat , Alexander G. Ioannidis

Detecting semantic concept of columns in tabular data is of particular interest to many applications ranging from data integration, cleaning, search to feature engineering and model building in machine learning. Recently, several works have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Udayan Khurana , Sainyam Galhotra

This study explores three approaches to processing table data in scientific papers to enhance extractive question answering and develop a software tool for the systematic review process. The methods evaluated include: (1) Optical Character…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dongyoun Kim , Hyung-do Choi , Youngsun Jang , John Kim

Large language models (LLMs) are primarily designed to understand unstructured text. When directly applied to structured formats such as tabular data, they may struggle to discern inherent relationships and overlook critical patterns. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Natraj Raman , Sumitra Ganesh , Manuela Veloso

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a methodology that aims to improve the general performance of estimation and prediction by sharing common information among related tasks. In the MTL, there are several assumptions for the relationships and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-27 Akira Okazaki , Shuichi Kawano

This paper presents a groundbreaking multimodal, multi-task, multi-teacher joint-grained knowledge distillation model for visually-rich form document understanding. The model is designed to leverage insights from both fine-grained and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yihao Ding , Lorenzo Vaiani , Caren Han , Jean Lee , Paolo Garza , Josiah Poon , Luca Cagliero

Tabular data is often hidden in text, particularly in medical diagnostic reports. Traditional machine learning (ML) models designed to work with tabular data, cannot effectively process information in such form. On the other hand, large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Aleksa Bisercic , Mladen Nikolic , Mihaela van der Schaar , Boris Delibasic , Pietro Lio , Andrija Petrovic

Dealing with tabular data is challenging due to partial information, noise, and heterogeneous structure. Existing techniques often struggle to simultaneously address key aspects of tabular data such as textual information, a variable number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wei Min Loh , Jiaqi Shang , Pascal Poupart

Structured text understanding on Visually Rich Documents (VRDs) is a crucial part of Document Intelligence. Due to the complexity of content and layout in VRDs, structured text understanding has been a challenging task. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yulin Li , Yuxi Qian , Yuchen Yu , Xiameng Qin , Chengquan Zhang , Yan Liu , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding

Image-based table recognition is a challenging task due to the diversity of table styles and the complexity of table structures. Most of the previous methods focus on a non-end-to-end approach which divides the problem into two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nam Tuan Ly , Atsuhiro Takasu

Tables present important information concisely in many scientific documents. Visual features like mathematical symbols, equations, and spanning cells make structure and content extraction from tables embedded in research documents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

In this paper, we develop a neural summarization model which can effectively process multiple input documents and distill Transformer architecture with the ability to encode documents in a hierarchical manner. We represent cross-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yang Liu , Mirella Lapata

Large language models often struggle with complex long-horizon analytical tasks over unstructured tables, which typically feature hierarchical and bidirectional headers and non-canonical layouts. We formalize this challenge as Deep Tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Junnan Dong , Chuang Zhou , Zheng Yuan , Yifei Yu , Qiufeng Wang , Yinghui Li , Siyu An , Di Yin , Xing Sun , Feiyue Huang

Tables present summarized and structured information to the reader, which makes table structure extraction an important part of document understanding applications. However, table structure identification is a hard problem not only because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Saqib Ali Khan , Syed Muhammad Daniyal Khalid , Muhammad Ali Shahzad , Faisal Shafait