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Tabular data analysis is crucial in various fields, and large language models show promise in this area. However, current research mostly focuses on rudimentary tasks like Text2SQL and TableQA, neglecting advanced analysis like forecasting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Rui Ding , Lun Du , Yan Gao , Ran Jia , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Zejian Yuan , Dongmei Zhang

In recent times Large Language Models have exhibited tremendous capabilities, especially in the areas of mathematics, code generation and general-purpose reasoning. However for specialized domains especially in applications that require…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sujit Khanna , Shishir Subedi

Tables are prevalent in real-world databases, requiring significant time and effort for humans to analyze and manipulate. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have made it possible to interact with tables using natural language…

The emergence of models like GPTs, Claude, LLaMA, and Qwen has reshaped AI applications, presenting vast new opportunities across industries. Yet, the integration of tabular data remains notably underdeveloped, despite its foundational role…

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

Large Language Model-based (LLM-based) Text-to-SQL methods have achieved important progress in generating SQL queries for real-world applications. When confronted with table content-aware questions in real-world scenarios, ambiguous data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Wenbo Xu , Liang Yan , Chuanyi Liu , Peiyi Han , Haifeng Zhu , Yong Xu , Yingwei Liang , Bob Zhang

A search engine's ability to retrieve desirable datasets is important for data sharing and reuse. Existing dataset search engines typically rely on matching queries to dataset descriptions. However, a user may not have enough prior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Zhiyu Chen , Haiyan Jia , Jeff Heflin , Brian D. Davison

Detecting semantic types of columns in data lake tables is an important application. A key bottleneck in semantic type detection is the availability of human annotation due to the inherent complexity of data lakes. In this paper, we propose…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Chenjie Li , Dan Zhang , Jin Wang

Text-to-SQL enables non-expert users to query databases in natural language, yet real-world schemas often suffer from ambiguous, abbreviated, or inconsistent naming conventions that degrade model accuracy. Existing approaches treat schemas…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jiaqian Wang , Yutao Qi , Wenjin Hou , Yu Pang , Rui Yang

As organizations continue to access diverse datasets, the demand for effective data integration has increased. Key tasks in this process, such as schema matching and entity resolution, are essential but often require significant effort.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuka Haruki , Shigeru Ishikura , Kazuya Demachi , Teruaki Hayashi

In many use-cases, information is stored in text but not available in structured data. However, extracting data from natural language text to precisely fit a schema, and thus enable querying, is a challenging task. With the rise of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mohammed Saeed , Nicola De Cao , Paolo Papotti

Acronym Disambiguation (AD) is crucial for natural language understanding on various sources, including biomedical reports, scientific papers, and search engine queries. However, existing acronym disambiguation benchmarks and tools are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lihu Chen , Gaël Varoquaux , Fabian M. Suchanek

We present the design of a structured search engine which returns a multi-column table in response to a query consisting of keywords describing each of its columns. We answer such queries by exploiting the millions of tables on the Web…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Rakesh Pimplikar , Sunita Sarawagi

Temporal reasoning over tabular data presents substantial challenges for large language models (LLMs), as evidenced by recent research. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of temporal datasets to pinpoint the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Irwin Deng , Kushagra Dixit , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

We focus on Text-to-SQL semantic parsing from the perspective of retrieval-augmented generation. Motivated by challenges related to the size of commercial database schemata and the deployability of business intelligence solutions, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhili Shen , Pavlos Vougiouklis , Chenxin Diao , Kaustubh Vyas , Yuanyi Ji , Jeff Z. Pan

Most modern Text2SQL systems prompt large language models (LLMs) with entire schemas -- mostly column information -- alongside the user's question. While effective on small databases, this approach fails on real-world schemas that exceed…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Thanh Dat Hoang , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Tabular data prediction is a fundamental machine learning task for many applications. Existing methods predominantly employ discriminative modeling and operate under the assumption of a fixed target column, necessitating re-training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruiyu Wang , Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Detecting anomalies in tabular data is critical for many real-world applications, such as credit card fraud detection. With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), state-of-the-art performance in tabular anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Ruikang Liu , Runyu Chen , Haoxiang Suo , Zhiyi Peng , Zhuo Tang , Changjian Chen

Tabular data, consisting of rows and columns, is omnipresent across various machine learning applications. Each column represents a feature, and features can be combined or transformed to create new, more informative features. Such feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Bastian Schäfer , Lennart Purucker , Maciej Janowski , Frank Hutter

Taxonomy inference for tabular data is a critical task of schema inference, aiming at discovering entity types (i.e., concepts) of the tables and building their hierarchy. It can play an important role in data management, data exploration,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhenyu Wu , Jiaoyan Chen , Norman W. Paton