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Generating insightful and actionable information from databases is critical in data analysis. This paper introduces a novel approach using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically generate textual insights. Given a multi-table database…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Alberto Sánchez Pérez , Alaa Boukhary , Paolo Papotti , Luis Castejón Lozano , Adam Elwood

Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Preparing data typically involves collecting and merging data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Glass , Xueqing Wu , Ankita Rajaram Naik , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo

In Table-to-Text (T2T) generation, existing approaches predominantly focus on providing objective descriptions of tabular data. However, generating text that incorporates subjectivity, where subjectivity refers to interpretations beyond raw…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronak Upasham , Tathagata Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with complex Text-to-SQL queries that demand both sophisticated mathematical reasoning and intricate schema navigation. Existing methods often tackle these challenges in isolation, creating a fractured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xutao Mao , Tao Liu , Hongying Zan

In task-oriented conversation systems, natural language generation systems that generate sentences with specific information related to conversation flow are useful. Our study focuses on language generation by considering various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Joosung Lee

A number of researchers have recently questioned the necessity of increasingly complex neural network (NN) architectures. In particular, several recent papers have shown that simpler, properly tuned models are at least competitive across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hamidreza Shahidi , Ming Li , Jimmy Lin

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates the hallucination problem of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. Recursive summarization constructs a hierarchical summary tree by clustering text chunks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Guanran Luo , Zhongquan Jian , Wentao Qiu , Meihong Wang , Qingqiang Wu

We present a comprehensive evaluation of structured decoding for text-to-table generation with large language models (LLMs). While previous work has primarily focused on unconstrained generation of tables, the impact of enforcing structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julian Oestreich , Lydia Müller

Generating sports game reports from structured tables is a complex table-to-text task that demands both precise data interpretation and fluent narrative generation. Traditional model-based approaches require large, annotated datasets, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shang-Hsuan Chiang , Tsan-Tsung Yang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

We study a new problem setting of question answering (QA), referred to as DocTabQA. Within this setting, given a long document, the goal is to respond to questions by organizing the answers into structured tables derived directly from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haochen Wang , Kai Hu , Haoyu Dong , Liangcai Gao

We present a framework for generating natural language description from structured data such as tables; the problem comes under the category of data-to-text natural language generation (NLG). Modern data-to-text NLG systems typically employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Efficient processing of tabular data is important in various industries, especially when working with datasets containing a large number of columns. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their ability on several tasks through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ashlesha Akella , Abhijit Manatkar , Brij Chavda , Hima Patel

Controlled table-to-text generation seeks to generate natural language descriptions for highlighted subparts of a table. Previous SOTA systems still employ a sequence-to-sequence generation method, which merely captures the table as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fei Wang , Zhewei Xu , Pedro Szekely , Muhao Chen

Transforming dense, detailed, unstructured text into an interpretable and summarised table, also colloquially known as Text-to-Table generation, is an essential task for information retrieval. Current methods, however, miss out on how and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Naman Ahuja , Fenil Bardoliya , Chitta Baral , Vivek Gupta

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , George Han , Celine Liang

Large language models (LM) based on Transformers allow to generate plausible long texts. In this paper, we explore how this generation can be further controlled at decoding time to satisfy certain constraints (e.g. being non-toxic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Antoine Chaffin , Vincent Claveau , Ewa Kijak

Generative methods have recently seen significant improvements by generating in a lower-dimensional latent representation of the data. However, many of the generative methods applied in the latent space remain complex and difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alona Levy-Jurgenson , Zohar Yakhini

In this work, we address the task of table image to LaTeX code generation, with the goal of automating the reconstruction of high-quality, publication-ready tables from visual inputs. A central challenge of this task lies in accurately…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jun Ling , Yao Qi , Tao Huang , Shibo Zhou , Yanqin Huang , Jiang Yang , Ziqi Song , Ying Zhou , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen , Peng Wang

The generation of questions and answers (QA) from knowledge graphs (KG) plays a crucial role in the development and testing of educational platforms, dissemination tools, and large language models (LLM). However, existing approaches often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sania Nayab , Marco Simoni , Giulio Rossolini , Andrea Saracino

This work focuses on the novel problem setting of generating graphs conditioned on a description of the graph's functional requirements in a downstream task. We pose the problem as a text-to-text generation problem and focus on the approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Peter A. Zachares , Vahan Hovhannisyan , Alan Mosca , Yarin Gal