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We present Column2Vec, a distributed representation of database columns based on column metadata. Our distributed representation has several applications. Using known names for groups of columns (i.e., a table name), we train a model to…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Michael J. Mior , Alexander G. Ororbia

High-quality, error-free datasets are a key ingredient in building reliable, accurate, and unbiased machine learning (ML) models. However, real world datasets often suffer from errors due to sensor malfunctions, data entry mistakes, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tommaso Bendinelli , Artur Dox , Christian Holz

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as few-shot learners capable of handling a variety of tasks, including comprehension, planning, reasoning, question answering, arithmetic calculations, and more. At the core of these capabilities is…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Pan , Hongfeng Yu , Tianjiao Zhao , Jianxin Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) promise to automate data engineering on tabular data, offering enterprises a valuable opportunity to cut the high costs of manual data handling. But the enterprise domain comes with unique challenges that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jan-Micha Bodensohn , Ulf Brackmann , Liane Vogel , Anupam Sanghi , Carsten Binnig

Large language models (LLMs) excel in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, since LLMs can only incorporate new knowledge through training or supervised fine-tuning processes, they are unsuitable for applications that…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongyue Qin , Chen Luo , Zhengyang Wang , Haoming Jiang , Yizhou Sun

Finding relevant tables among databases, lakes, and repositories is the first step in extracting value from data. Such a task remains difficult because assessing whether a table is relevant to a problem does not always depend only on its…

Tabular machine learning problems often require time-consuming and labor-intensive feature engineering. Recent efforts have focused on using large language models (LLMs) to capitalize on their potential domain knowledge. At the same time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jaris Küken , Lennart Purucker , Frank Hutter

Automated feature engineering plays a critical role in improving predictive model performance for tabular learning tasks. Traditional automated feature engineering methods are limited by their reliance on pre-defined transformations within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikhil Abhyankar , Parshin Shojaee , Chandan K. Reddy

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

Generating schema labels automatically for column values of data tables has many data science applications such as schema matching, and data discovery and linking. For example, automatically extracted tables with missing headers can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mohamed Trabelsi , Jin Cao , Jeff Heflin

While the abundance of rich and vast datasets across numerous fields has facilitated the advancement of natural language processing, sectors in need of specialized data types continue to struggle with the challenge of finding quality data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hyeonseok Kang , Hyein Seo , Jeesu Jung , Sangkeun Jung , Du-Seong Chang , Riwoo Chung

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Several large-scale datasets (e.g., WikiSQL, Spider) for developing natural language interfaces to databases have recently been proposed. These datasets cover a wide breadth of domains but fall short on some essential domains, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Rahul Kumar , Amar Raja Dibbu , Shrutendra Harsola , Vignesh Subrahmaniam , Ashutosh Modi

Lexical resources are crucial for cross-linguistic analysis and can provide new insights into computational models for natural language learning. Here, we present an advanced database for comparative studies of words with multiple meanings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Annika Tjuka , Robert Forkel , Christoph Rzymski , Johann-Mattis List

Automatic chart to text summarization is an effective tool for the visually impaired people along with providing precise insights of tabular data in natural language to the user. A large and well-structured dataset is always a key part for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Raian Rahman , Rizvi Hasan , Abdullah Al Farhad , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal

Tabular data synthesis involves not only multi-table synthesis but also generating multi-modal data (e.g., strings and categories), which enables diverse knowledge synthesis. However, separating numerical and categorical data has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Tung Sum Thomas Kwok , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

We present a study on the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tabular data classification, emphasizing an efficient framework. Building upon existing work done in TabLLM (arXiv:2210.10723), we introduce three novel serialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sukriti Jaitly , Tanay Shah , Ashish Shugani , Razik Singh Grewal

Natural language interfaces to tabular data must handle ambiguities inherent to queries. Instead of treating ambiguity as a deficiency, we reframe it as a feature of cooperative interaction where users are intentional about the degree to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Daniel Gomm , Cornelius Wolff , Madelon Hulsebos

With the exponential increase in online scientific literature, identifying reliable domain-specific data has become increasingly important but also very challenging. Manual data collection and filtering for domain-specific scientific…

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