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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

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization. While recently released datasets, such as QMSum or AQuaMuSe, facilitate research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jesse Vig , Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu

Query-focused summarization (QFS) is a fundamental task in natural language processing with broad applications, including search engines and report generation. However, traditional approaches assume the availability of relevant documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Weijia Zhang , Jia-Hong Huang , Svitlana Vakulenko , Yumo Xu , Thilina Rajapakse , Evangelos Kanoulas

We propose a novel framework for summarizing structured enterprise data across multiple dimensions using large language model (LLM)-based agents. Traditional table-to-text models often lack the capacity to reason across hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Amit Dhanda

Recent large language models (LLMs) have advanced table understanding capabilities but rely on converting tables into text sequences. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable direct visual processing, they face limitations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Bohao Yang , Yingji Zhang , Dong Liu , André Freitas , Chenghua Lin

We present TrialsSummarizer, a system that aims to automatically summarize evidence presented in the set of randomized controlled trials most relevant to a given query. Building on prior work, the system retrieves trial publications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Sanjana Ramprasad , Denis Jered McInerney , Iain J. Marshal , Byron C. Wallace

Complex reasoning over tabular data is crucial in real-world data analysis, yet large language models (LLMs) often underperform due to complex queries, noisy data, and limited numerical capabilities. To address these issues, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Changjiang Jiang , Fengchang Yu , Haihua Chen , Wei Lu , Jin Zeng

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 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

While the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in analytical tasks such as mathematics and code generation, their utility for abstractive summarization remains widely assumed but largely unverified. To bridge this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haohan Yuan , Haopeng Zhang

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Tables are a fundamental medium for organizing and analyzing data, making table reasoning a critical capability for intelligent systems. Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general reasoning abilities, they still struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lang Cao , Jingxian Xu , Hanbing Liu , Jinyu Wang , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in the table question answering (TQA) task through prompt engineering, they face challenges in industrial applications, including structural heterogeneity, difficulties in target data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sishi Xiong , Ziyang He , Zhongjiang He , Yu Zhao , Changzai Pan , Jie Zhang , Zhenhe Wu , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on large volumes of data excel at various natural language tasks, but they cannot handle tasks requiring knowledge that has not been trained on previously. One solution is to use a retriever that fetches…

Implicit knowledge hidden within the explicit table cells, such as data insights, is the key to generating a high-quality table summary. However, unveiling such implicit knowledge is a non-trivial task. Due to the complex nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kwangwook Seo , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

Reasoning over tabular data is a crucial capability for tasks like question answering and fact verification, as it requires models to comprehend both free-form questions and semi-structured tables. However, while methods like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qixian Huang , Hongqiang Lin , Tong Fu , Yingsen Wang , Zhenghui Fu , Qirui Wang , Yiding Sun , Dongxu Zhang

Tables are a primary medium for conveying critical information in administrative domains, yet their complexity hinders utilization by Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces the Theme-Explanation Structure-based Table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 TaeYoon Kwack , Jisoo Kim , Ki Yong Jung , DongGeon Lee , Heesun Park

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pranav Janjani , Mayank Palan , Sarvesh Shirude , Ninad Shegokar , Sunny Kumar , Faruk Kazi

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in table Question Answering (Table QA). However, extending these capabilities to multi-table QA remains challenging due to unreliable schema linking across complex tables. Existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xixi Wang , Miguel Costa , Jordanka Kovaceva , Shuai Wang , Francisco C. Pereira
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