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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

Table-to-text generation, a long-standing challenge in natural language generation, has remained unexplored through the lens of subjectivity. Subjectivity here encompasses the comprehension of information derived from the table that cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tathagata Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recent years have seen great success in the use of neural seq2seq models on the text-to-SQL task. However, little work has paid attention to how these models generalize to realistic unseen data, which naturally raises a question: does this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Shuaichen Chang , Pengfei Liu , Yun Tang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Hybrid data combining both tabular and textual content (e.g., financial reports) are quite pervasive in the real world. However, Question Answering (QA) over such hybrid data is largely neglected in existing research. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Fengbin Zhu , Wenqiang Lei , Youcheng Huang , Chao Wang , Shuo Zhang , Jiancheng Lv , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Document-to-table (Doc2Table) extraction derives structured tables from unstructured documents under a target schema, enabling reliable and verifiable SQL-based data analytics. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuxiang Guo , Zhuoran Du , Nan Tang , Kezheng Tang , Congcong Ge , Yunjun Gao

We present TableBank, a new image-based table detection and recognition dataset built with novel weak supervision from Word and Latex documents on the internet. Existing research for image-based table detection and recognition usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Minghao Li , Lei Cui , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

Recent table representation learning and data discovery methods tackle table union search (TUS) within data lakes, which involves identifying tables that can be unioned with a given query table to enrich its content. These methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Allaa Boutaleb , Bernd Amann , Hubert Naacke , Rafael Angarita

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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Rana Alshaikh , Israa Alghanmi , Shelan Jeawak

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool in advancing the Text-to-SQL task, significantly outperforming traditional methods.Nevertheless, as a nascent research field, there is still no consensus on the optimal prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Bin Zhang , Yuxiao Ye , Guoqing Du , Xiaoru Hu , Zhishuai Li , Chi Harold Liu , Zhiwei Xu , Guoliang Fan , Rui Zhao , Ziyue Li , Hangyu Mao

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enhanced tabular question answering (Tabular QA), yet they struggle with open-domain queries exhibiting underspecified or uncertain expressions. To address this, we introduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhensheng Wang , ZhanTeng Lin , Wenmian Yang , Kun Zhou , Yiquan Zhang , Weijia Jia

Text-to-SQL, the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries, is part of various business processes. Its automation, which is an emerging challenge, will empower software practitioners to seamlessly interact with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yewei Song , Saad Ezzini , Xunzhu Tang , Cedric Lothritz , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé Bissyandé , Andrey Boytsov , Ulrick Ble , Anne Goujon

This work reframes the Text-to-SQL task as a pathway for teaching large language models (LLMs) to reason over and manipulate tabular data--moving beyond the traditional focus on query generation. We propose a two-stage framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Julien Fauqueur

Despite its real-world significance, model performance on tabular data remains underexplored, leaving uncertainty about which model to rely on and which prompt configuration to adopt. To address this gap, we create ToRR, a benchmark for…

The data-centric paradigm has emerged as a pivotal direction in artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing the role of high-quality training data. This shift is especially critical in the Text-to-SQL task, where the scarcity, limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Chang Xu , Tao Xie , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

With the future striving toward data-centric decision-making, seamless access to databases is of utmost importance. There is extensive research on creating an efficient text-to-sql (TEXT2SQL) model to access data from the database. Using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ayush Kumar , Parth Nagarkar , Prabhav Nalhe , Sanjeev Vijayakumar

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly catalyzed table-based question answering (TableQA). However, existing TableQA benchmarks often overlook the intricacies of industrial scenarios, which are characterized…

In the domain of data science, the predictive tasks of classification, regression, and imputation of missing values are commonly encountered challenges associated with tabular data. This research endeavors to apply Large Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yazheng Yang , Yuqi Wang , Yaxuan Li , Sankalok Sen , Lei Li , Lin Qiu , Qi Liu

Tabular data is difficult to analyze and to search through, yielding for new tools and interfaces that would allow even non tech-savvy users to gain insights from open datasets without resorting to specialized data analysis tools or even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Svitlana Vakulenko , Vadim Savenkov