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Table Question Answering (TQA) aims to answer natural language questions about tabular data, often accompanied by additional contexts such as text passages. The task spans diverse settings, varying in table representation, question/answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Zhou , Bolei Ma , Annemarie Friedrich , Mohsen Mesgar

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has unlocked great opportunities in complex data management tasks, particularly in question answering (QA) over complicated multi-table relational data. Despite significant progress, systematically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qiu , You Peng , Guangxin He , Binhang Yuan , Chen Wang

Table Question Answering (TQA) aims to answer natural language questions over structured tables. Large Language Models (LLMs) enable promising solutions to this problem, with operator-centric solutions that generate table manipulation…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Fengyu Li , Junhao Zhu , Kaishi Song , Lu Chen , Zhongming Yao , Tianyi Li , Christian S. Jensen

Large Language Models (LLMs), excel in natural language understanding, but their capability for complex mathematical reasoning with an amalgamation of structured tables and unstructured text is uncertain. This study explores LLMs'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pragya Srivastava , Manuj Malik , Vivek Gupta , Tanuja Ganu , Dan Roth

With the advancement of large language models (LLMs), diverse time series analysis tasks are reformulated as time series question answering (TSQA) through a unified natural language interface. However, existing LLM-based approaches largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chen Su , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown to be capable of various tasks, yet their capability in interpreting and reasoning over tabular data remains an underexplored area. In this context, this study investigates from three core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Tianyang Liu , Fei Wang , Muhao Chen

Table reasoning, which aims to generate the corresponding answer to the question following the user requirement according to the provided table, and optionally a text description of the table, effectively improving the efficiency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Xuanliang Zhang , Dingzirui Wang , Longxu Dou , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

In this work, we address question answering (QA) over a hybrid of tabular and textual data that are very common content on the Web (e.g. SEC filings), where discrete reasoning capabilities are often required. Recently, large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Fengbin Zhu , Ziyang Liu , Fuli Feng , Chao Wang , Moxin Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Chain-of-thought (CoT), tree-of-thought (ToT), and related techniques work surprisingly well in practice for some complex reasoning tasks with Large Language Models (LLMs), but why? This work seeks the underlying reasons by conducting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Liwei Kang , Zirui Zhao , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. They have also shown the ability to perform chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning to solve complex problems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lei Wang , Yi Hu , Jiabang He , Xing Xu , Ning Liu , Hui Liu , Heng Tao Shen

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

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in Contextual Question Answering (CQA). However, prior approaches typically employ elaborate reasoning strategies regardless of question complexity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhengyi Zhao , Shubo Zhang , Zezhong Wang , Huimin Wang , Yutian Zhao , Bin Liang , Yefeng Zheng , Binyang Li , Kam-Fai Wong , Xian Wu

The paper presents our system developed for table question answering (TQA). TQA tasks face challenges due to the characteristics of real-world tabular data, such as large size, incomplete column semantics, and entity ambiguity. To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sishi Xiong , Dakai Wang , Yu Zhao , Jie Zhang , Changzai Pan , Haowei He , Xiangyu Li , Wenhan Chang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction to tackle many table understanding tasks, such as table-based question answering and fact verification. Compared with generic reasoning, table-based reasoning…

Process reward models (PRMs) enhance complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by evaluating candidate solutions step-by-step and selecting answers based on aggregated step scores. While effective in domains such as mathematics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Lei Tang , Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar

Table Question Answering (TQA) presents a substantial challenge at the intersection of natural language processing and data analytics. This task involves answering natural language (NL) questions on top of tabular data, demanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjia Zhang , Jordan Henkel , Avrilia Floratou , Joyce Cahoon , Shaleen Deep , Jignesh M. Patel

Table-based question answering (TableQA) is an important task in natural language processing, which requires comprehending tables and employing various reasoning ways to answer the questions. This paper introduces TableQAKit, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Fangyu Lei , Tongxu Luo , Pengqi Yang , Weihao Liu , Hanwen Liu , Jiahe Lei , Yiming Huang , Yifan Wei , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Recent literature has shown that large language models (LLMs) are generally excellent few-shot reasoners to solve text reasoning tasks. However, the capability of LLMs on table reasoning tasks is yet to be explored. In this paper, we aim at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Wenhu Chen

Making the content generated by Large Language Model (LLM), accurate, credible and traceable is crucial, especially in complex knowledge-intensive tasks that require multi-step reasoning and each step needs knowledge to solve.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper proposes a detailed prompting flow, termed Table-Logic, to investigate the performance contrasts between bigger and smaller language models (LMs) utilizing step-by-step reasoning methods in the TableQA task. The method processes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoyan Yang , Yixuan Wang , Keyue Tong , Hongjin Zhu , Yuanxin Zhang
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