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Tables condense key transactional and administrative information into compact layouts, but practical extraction requires more than text recognition: systems must also recover structure (rows, columns, merged cells, headers) and interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Thierry Paquet

Natural language question answering (QA) over structured data sources such as tables and knowledge graphs have been widely investigated, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years. The main solutions include question to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wen Zhang , Long Jin , Yushan Zhu , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhiwei Huang , Junjie Wang , Yin Hua , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen

Medical question-answering (QA) is a critical task for evaluating how effectively large language models (LLMs) encode clinical knowledge and assessing their potential applications in medicine. Despite showing promise on multiple-choice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guangfu Guo , Kai Zhang , Bryan Hoo , Yujun Cai , Xiaoqian Lu , Nanyun Peng , Yiwei Wang

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…

As the development of academic conferences fosters global scholarly communication, researchers consistently need to obtain accurate and up-to-date information about academic conferences. Since the information is scattered, using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhiwei Huang , Juan Li , Long Jin , Junjie Wang , Mingchen Tu , Yin Hua , Zhiqiang Liu , Jiawei Meng , Wen Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in multi-turn conversational tasks, yet their pre-training data predominantly consists of continuous prose, creating a potential mismatch between required capabilities and training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jing Yang Lee , Hamed Bonab , Nasser Zalmout , Ming Zeng , Sanket Lokegaonkar , Colin Lockard , Binxuan Huang , Ritesh Sarkhel , Haodong Wang

Document-grounded dialogue systems aim to answer user queries by leveraging external information. Previous studies have mainly focused on handling free-form documents, often overlooking structured data such as lists, which can represent a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Mujeen Sung , Song Feng , James Gung , Raphael Shu , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

Document Question Answering (DocQA) focuses on answering questions grounded in given documents, yet existing DocQA agents lack effective tool utilization and largely rely on closed-source models. In this work, we introduce DocDancer, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Qintong Zhang , Xinjie Lv , Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Zhengwei Tao , Guochen Yan , Huanyao Zhang , Bin Wang , Jiahao Xu , Haitao Mi , Wentao Zhang

Accurate evaluation of financial question answering (QA) systems necessitates a comprehensive dataset encompassing diverse question types and contexts. However, current financial QA datasets lack scope diversity and question complexity.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jian Chen , Peilin Zhou , Yining Hua , Yingxin Loh , Kehui Chen , Ziyuan Li , Bing Zhu , Junwei Liang

A persistent challenge to table question answering (TableQA) by generating executable programs has been adapting to varied table structures, typically requiring domain-specific logical forms. In response, this paper introduces a unified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihan Cao , Shuyi Chen , Ryan Liu , Zhiruo Wang , Daniel Fried

Long-form question answering (LFQA) poses a challenge as it involves generating detailed answers in the form of paragraphs, which go beyond simple yes/no responses or short factual answers. While existing QA models excel in questions with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Pritom Saha Akash , Kashob Kumar Roy , Lucian Popa , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

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

Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models can produce trustworthy, verifiable reasoning over long, visually rich documents requires evaluation beyond end-to-end answer accuracy. We introduce DocScope, a benchmark that formulates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiang Feng , Jiawei Zhou , Zhangfeng Huang , Kewei Wang , Shanshan Ye , Jinxin Hu , Zulong Chen , Yong Luo , Jing Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various NLP tasks, but they still suffer from challenges such as hallucination and weak numerical reasoning. To overcome these challenges, external tools can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Kuan Wang , Haotian Sun , Chao Zhang

Table Question Answering (TQA) is an important but under-explored task. Most of the existing QA datasets are in unstructured text format and only few of them use tables as the context. To the best of our knowledge, none of TQA datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Man Luo , Sharad Saxena , Swaroop Mishra , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved table understanding tasks such as Table Question Answering (TableQA), yet challenges remain in ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Sieun Hyeon , Jusang Oh , Sunghwan Steve Cho , Jaeyoung Do

TableQA is the task of answering questions over tables of structured information, returning individual cells or tables as output. TableQA research has focused primarily on high-resource languages, leaving medium- and low-resource languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vaishali Pal , Evangelos Kanoulas , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Document Visual Question Answering (VQA) aims to understand visually-rich documents to answer questions in natural language, which is an emerging research topic for both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Fengbin Zhu , Wenqiang Lei , Fuli Feng , Chao Wang , Haozhou Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Complex table question answering (TQA) aims to answer questions that require complex reasoning, such as multi-step or multi-category reasoning, over data represented in tabular form. Previous approaches demonstrated notable performance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar , Annemarie Friedrich , Heike Adel

Large language models (LLMs) are widely applied to data analytics over documents, yet direct reasoning over long, noisy documents remains brittle and error-prone. Hence, we study document question answering (QA) that consolidates dispersed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhuowen Liang , Xiaotian Lin , Zhengxuan Zhang , Yuyu Luo , Haixun Wang , Nan Tang