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With advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), a major use case that has emerged is querying databases in plain English, translating user questions into executable database queries, which has improved significantly. However, real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Pratyush Kumar , Kuber Vijaykumar Bellad , Bharat Vadlamudi , Aman Chadha

Although researchers have devoted considerable attention to helping database users formulate queries, many users still find it challenging to specify queries that involve joining tables. To help users construct join queries for exploring…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Minsuk Kahng , Shamkant B. Navathe , John T. Stasko , Duen Horng Chau

Relational tables on the Web store a vast amount of knowledge. Owing to the wealth of such tables, there has been tremendous progress on a variety of tasks in the area of table understanding. However, existing work generally relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Xiang Deng , Huan Sun , Alyssa Lees , You Wu , Cong Yu

With the proliferation of data across various domains, there is a critical demand for tools that enable non-experts to derive meaningful insights without deep data analysis skills. To address this need, existing automatic fact sheet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Minh Duc Vu , Jieshan Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Qian Fu

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

This paper proposes a new principled multi-task representation learning framework (InfoMTL) to extract noise-invariant sufficient representations for all tasks. It ensures sufficiency of shared representations for all tasks and mitigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have notably enhanced their ability to reason with tabular data, primarily through program-aided mechanisms that manipulate and analyze tables. However, these methods often require the entire…

With the growing abundance of repositories containing tabular data, discovering relevant tables for in-depth analysis remains a challenging task. Existing table discovery methods primarily retrieve desired tables based on a query table or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language models are constrained in their coverage and only answer questions over a single table. However, real-world queries are complex in nature, often over multiple tables in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vaishali Pal , Andrew Yates , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Recent studies show the promise of large language models (LLMs) for few-shot tabular classification but highlight challenges due to the variability in structured data. To address this, we propose distilling data into actionable insights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yifei Yuan , Jiatong Li , Weijia Zhang , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Renjun Hu

This paper proposes a novel task on commonsense-enhanced task-based dialogue grounded in documents and describes the Task2Dial dataset, a novel dataset of document-grounded task-based dialogues, where an Information Giver (IG) provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Carl Strathearn , Dimitra Gkatzia

Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) is a comprehensive account of how humans make decisions from experience during dynamic tasks. Since it was first proposed almost two decades ago, multiple computational models have been constructed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Thuy Ngoc Nguyen , Duy Nhat Phan , Cleotilde Gonzalez

As part of the NLP Scholar project, we created a single unified dataset of NLP papers and their meta-information (including citation numbers), by extracting and aligning information from the ACL Anthology and Google Scholar. In this paper,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Saif M. Mohammad

Recent advancements in tabular deep learning (DL) have led to substantial performance improvements, surpassing the capabilities of traditional models. With the adoption of techniques from natural language processing (NLP), such as language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Anton Frederik Thielmann , Soheila Samiee

Table reasoning is a challenging task that requires understanding both natural language questions and structured tabular data. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid , Davood Rafiei

Creating challenging tabular inference data is essential for learning complex reasoning. Prior work has mostly relied on two data generation strategies. The first is human annotation, which yields linguistically diverse data but is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Aashna Jena , Vivek Gupta , Manish Shrivastava , Julian Martin Eisenschlos

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

Due to the characteristics of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) products, the critical information of ICT devices is often summarized in big tabular data shared across supply chains. Therefore, it is critical to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) has opened new opportunities for education. While learners can interact with academic papers through LLM-powered dialogue, limitations still exist: the lack of structured organization and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yuheng Yang , Wenjia Jiang , Yang Wang , Yi Song , Yiwei Wang , Chi Zhang

Working with data in table form is usually considered a preparatory and tedious step in the sensemaking pipeline; a way of getting the data ready for more sophisticated visualization and analytical tools. But for many people, spreadsheets…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Lyn Bartram , Michael Correll , Melanie Tory