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The usefulness of tabular data such as web tables critically depends on understanding their semantics. This study focuses on column type prediction for tables without any meta data. Unlike traditional lexical matching-based methods, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jiaoyan Chen , Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz , Ian Horrocks , Charles Sutton

Tabular data remains one of the most prevalent data types across a wide range of real-world applications, yet effective representation learning for this domain poses unique challenges due to its irregular patterns, heterogeneous feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Weijieying Ren , Tianxiang Zhao , Yuqing Huang , Vasant Honavar

Tabular data, widely used in various applications such as industrial control systems, finance, and supply chain, often contains complex interrelationships among its attributes. Data disentanglement seeks to transform such data into latent…

The abundant semi-structured data on the Web, such as HTML-based tables and lists, provide commercial search engines a rich information source for question answering (QA). Different from plain text passages in Web documents, Web tables and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xingyao Zhang , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Ming Gong , Lijie Wen , Daxin Jiang

Tabular reasoning involves interpreting natural language queries about tabular data, which presents a unique challenge of combining language understanding with structured data analysis. Existing methods employ either textual reasoning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nikhil Abhyankar , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth , Chandan K. Reddy

Tabular data is the foundation of many applications in fields such as finance and healthcare. Although DNNs tailored for tabular data achieve competitive predictive performance, they are blackboxes with little interpretability. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Khawla Elhadri , Jörg Schlötterer , Christin Seifert

Recent breakthroughs in large language modeling have facilitated rigorous exploration of their application in diverse tasks related to tabular data modeling, such as prediction, tabular data synthesis, question answering, and table…

The growing trends in automation, Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing technologies have led to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), where it is possible to visualize and identify patterns and insights, which results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Idoia Berges , Víctor Julio Ramírez-Durán , Arantza Illarramendi

Data visualization in the form of charts plays a pivotal role in data analysis, offering critical insights and aiding in informed decision-making. Automatic chart understanding has witnessed significant advancements with the rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung , Haoyi Qiu , Mingyang Zhou , Shafiq Joty , Shih-Fu Chang , Heng Ji

Detecting the semantic types of data columns in relational tables is important for various data preparation and information retrieval tasks such as data cleaning, schema matching, data discovery, and semantic search. However, existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Dan Zhang , Yoshihiko Suhara , Jinfeng Li , Madelon Hulsebos , Çağatay Demiralp , Wang-Chiew Tan

Drawing connections between interesting groupings of data and their real-world meaning is an important, yet difficult, part of encountering a new dataset. A lay reader might see an interesting visual pattern in a chart but lack the domain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jonathan Zong , Isabella Pedraza Pineros , Mengzhu Katie Chen , Daniel Hajas , Arvind Satyanarayan

Tables are among the most widely used tools for representing structured data in research, business, medicine, and education. Although LLMs demonstrate strong performance in downstream tasks, their efficiency in processing tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ekaterina Borisova , Fabio Barth , Nils Feldhus , Raia Abu Ahmad , Malte Ostendorff , Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Georg Rehm , Sebastian Möller

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, it has historically underperformed on tabular learning tasks, which remain dominated by gradient boosting decision trees. However, recent advancements are paving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alan Arazi , Eilam Shapira , Roi Reichart

This paper presents a novel approach to translating natural language questions to SQL queries for given tables, which meets three requirements as a real-world data analysis application: cross-domain, multilingualism and enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yan Gao , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Raju Challagundla , Mohsen Dorodchi , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee

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

Slang is a predominant form of informal language making flexible and extended use of words that is notoriously hard for natural language processing systems to interpret. Existing approaches to slang interpretation tend to rely on context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zhewei Sun , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

AI-driven automated scoring systems offer scalable and efficient means of evaluating complex student-generated responses. Yet, despite increasing demand for transparency and interpretability, the field has yet to develop a widely accepted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yunsung Kim , Mike Hardy , Joseph Tey , Candace Thille , Chris Piech

High-quality Web tables are rich sources of information that can be used to populate Knowledge Graphs (KG). The focus of this paper is an evaluation of methods for table-to-class annotation, which is a sub-task of Table Interpretation (TI).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Mitchell Joblin , Volker Tresp

Tabular data represent one of the most prevalent data formats in applied machine learning, largely because they accommodate a broad spectrum of real-world problems. Existing literature has studied many of the shortcomings of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Guri Zabërgja , Arlind Kadra , Christian M. M. Frey , Josif Grabocka