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Generating high-quality stories spanning thousands of tokens requires competency across a variety of skills, from tracking plot and character arcs to keeping a consistent and engaging style. Due to the difficulty of sourcing labeled…

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Large pre-trained language models (LMs) have been shown to perform surprisingly well when fine-tuned on tasks that require commonsense and world knowledge. However, in end-to-end architectures, it is difficult to explain what is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Veronica Latcinnik , Jonathan Berant

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

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We introduce SciTaRC, an expert-authored benchmark of questions about tabular data in scientific papers requiring both deep language reasoning and complex computation. We show that current state-of-the-art AI models fail on at least 23% of…

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Lexically constrained text generation is one of the constrained text generation tasks, which aims to generate text that covers all the given constraint lexicons. While the existing approaches tackle this problem using a lexically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hayate Iso

While GPT-2 generates sentences that are remarkably human-like, longer documents can ramble and do not follow human-like writing structure. We study the problem of imposing structure on long-range text. We propose a novel controlled text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alexander Spangher , Xinyu Hua , Yao Ming , Nanyun Peng

The cognitive and reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable progress in natural language processing. However, their performance in interpreting structured data, especially in tabular formats, remains…

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Designing and generating new data under targeted properties has been attracting various critical applications such as molecule design, image editing and speech synthesis. Traditional hand-crafted approaches heavily rely on expertise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shiyu Wang , Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Bo Pan , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong knowledge reserves and task-solving capabilities, but still face the challenge of severe hallucination, hindering their practical application. Though scientific theories and rules can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Maotian Ma , Zheni Zeng , Zhenghao Liu , Yukun Yan

Traditional click-through rate (CTR) prediction models convert the tabular data into one-hot vectors and leverage the collaborative relations among features for inferring the user's preference over items. This modeling paradigm discards…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiangyang Li , Bo Chen , Lu Hou , Ruiming Tang

Table reasoning, including tabular QA and fact verification, often depends on annotated data or complex data augmentation, limiting flexibility and generalization. LLMs, despite their versatility, often underperform compared to simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yiran Rex Ma

The generation of precise and detailed Table-Of-Contents (TOC) from a document is a problem of major importance for document understanding and information extraction. Despite its importance, it is still a challenging task, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Najah-Imane Bentabet , Rémi Juge , Sira Ferradans

This paper addresses the problem of generating table captions for scholarly documents, which often require additional information outside the table. To this end, we propose a method of retrieving relevant sentences from the paper body, and…

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Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) represent the paramount evidence of clinical medicine. Using machines to interpret the massive amount of RCTs has the potential of aiding clinical decision-making. We propose a RCT conclusion generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Alexander Te-Wei Shieh , Yung-Sung Chuang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Mathematical reasoning has long been a key benchmark for evaluating large language models. Although substantial progress has been made on math word problems, the need for reasoning over tabular data in real-world applications has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shi-Yu Tian , Zhi Zhou , Wei Dong , Kun-Yang Yu , Ming Yang , Zi-Jian Cheng , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Tables are often created with hierarchies, but existing works on table reasoning mainly focus on flat tables and neglect hierarchical tables. Hierarchical tables challenge existing methods by hierarchical indexing, as well as implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhoujun Cheng , Haoyu Dong , Zhiruo Wang , Ran Jia , Jiaqi Guo , Yan Gao , Shi Han , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

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

Contemporary automated scientific discovery has focused on agents for generating scientific experiments, while systems that perform higher-level scientific activities such as theory building remain underexplored. In this work, we formulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peter Jansen , Peter Clark , Doug Downey , Daniel S. Weld

Text generation from a knowledge base aims to translate knowledge triples to natural language descriptions. Most existing methods ignore the faithfulness between a generated text description and the original table, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhenyi Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Bang An , Dong Yu , Changyou Chen