English
Related papers

Related papers: NLCTables: A Dataset for Marrying Natural Language…

200 papers

LLMs have shown impressive progress in natural language processing. However, they still face significant challenges in TableQA, where real-world complexities such as diverse table structures, multilingual data, and domain-specific reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junnan Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Bohan Yu , Xiaoyu Wu , Junbo Li , Lei Wang , Nan Xu

We present ModelTables, a benchmark of tables in Model Lakes that captures the structured semantics of performance and configuration tables often overlooked by text only retrieval. The corpus is built from Hugging Face model cards, GitHub…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengyuan Dong , Victor Zhong , Renée J. Miller

Humans continuously make new discoveries, and understanding temporal sequence of events leading to these breakthroughs is essential for advancing science and society. This ability to reason over time allows us to identify future steps and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Abhilash Shankarampeta , Harsh Mahajan , Tushar Kataria , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

In data lakes, information on the same subject is often fragmented across multiple tables. Table union search aims to find the top-k tables that can be unioned with a query table to extend it with more rows, without relying on metadata or…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongkang Sun , Zhihao Ding , Huiqiang Wang , Reynold Cheng , Jieming Shi

The advancement of mobile computing devices and positioning technologies has led to an explosive growth of spatio-temporal data managed in databases. Representative queries over such data include range queries, nearest neighbor queries, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xieyang Wang , Mengyi Liu , Weijia Yi , Jianqiu Xu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

With the future striving toward data-centric decision-making, seamless access to databases is of utmost importance. There is extensive research on creating an efficient text-to-sql (TEXT2SQL) model to access data from the database. Using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ayush Kumar , Parth Nagarkar , Prabhav Nalhe , Sanjeev Vijayakumar

How can we interpret and retrieve medical evidence to support clinical decisions? Clinical trial reports (CTR) amassed over the years contain indispensable information for the development of personalized medicine. However, it is practically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maël Jullien , Marco Valentino , Hannah Frost , Paul O'Regan , Donal Landers , André Freitas

NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) translates natural language questions into SQL queries, thereby making structured data accessible to non-technical users, serving as the foundation for intelligent data applications. State-of-the-art NL2SQL…

Detecting anomalies in tabular data is critical for many real-world applications, such as credit card fraud detection. With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), state-of-the-art performance in tabular anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Ruikang Liu , Runyu Chen , Haoxiang Suo , Zhiyi Peng , Zhuo Tang , Changjian Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with requests related to information retrieval and data manipulation that frequently arise in real-world scenarios under multiple conditions. In this paper, we demonstrate that leveraging tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jio Oh , Geon Heo , Seungjun Oh , Hyunjin Kim , JinYeong Bak , Jindong Wang , Xing Xie , Steven Euijong Whang

Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support various commercial applications. The performance of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu Liu , Shuyu Shen , Boyan Li , Peixian Ma , Runzhi Jiang , Yuxin Zhang , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize data analytics by simplifying tasks such as data discovery and SQL query synthesis through natural language interactions. This work serves as a pivotal first step toward the…

Several large-scale datasets (e.g., WikiSQL, Spider) for developing natural language interfaces to databases have recently been proposed. These datasets cover a wide breadth of domains but fall short on some essential domains, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Rahul Kumar , Amar Raja Dibbu , Shrutendra Harsola , Vignesh Subrahmaniam , Ashutosh Modi

Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the…

A search engine's ability to retrieve desirable datasets is important for data sharing and reuse. Existing dataset search engines typically rely on matching queries to dataset descriptions. However, a user may not have enough prior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Zhiyu Chen , Haiyan Jia , Jeff Heflin , Brian D. Davison

The scale, variety, and quantity of publicly-available NLP datasets has grown rapidly as researchers propose new tasks, larger models, and novel benchmarks. Datasets is a community library for contemporary NLP designed to support this…

High-quality datasets are typically required for accomplishing data-driven tasks, such as training medical diagnosis models, predicting real-time traffic conditions, or conducting experiments to validate research hypotheses. Consequently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pengyue Li , Sheng Wang , Hua Dai , Zhiyu Chen , Zhifeng Bao , Brian D. Davison

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

Table-based reasoning has shown remarkable progress in combining deep models with discrete reasoning, which requires reasoning over both free-form natural language (NL) questions and structured tabular data. However, previous table-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yunhu Ye , Binyuan Hui , Min Yang , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Optimizing accuracy and performance while eliminating hallucinations of open-domain conversational large language models (LLMs) is an open research challenge. A particularly promising direction is to augment and ground LLMs with information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Anirudh S Sundar , Larry Heck