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Augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs) for Question Answering (QA) with domain specific data has attracted wide attention. However, domain data often exists in a hybrid format, including text and semi-structured tables, posing challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Dehai Min , Nan Hu , Rihui Jin , Nuo Lin , Jiaoyan Chen , Yongrui Chen , Yu Li , Guilin Qi , Yun Li , Nijun Li , Qianren Wang

Question-answering (QA) on hybrid scientific tabular and textual data deals with scientific information, and relies on complex numerical reasoning. In recent years, while tabular QA has seen rapid progress, understanding their robustness on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Akash Ghosh , B Venkata Sahith , Niloy Ganguly , Pawan Goyal , Mayank Singh

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

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

Semi-structured table question answering (QA) is a challenging task that requires (1) precise extraction of cell contents and positions and (2) accurate recovery of key implicit logical structures, hierarchical relationships, and semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jinxiu Qu , Zirui Tang , Hongzhang Huang , Boyu Niu , Wei Zhou , Jiannan Wang , Yitong Song , Guoliang Li , Xuanhe Zhou , Fan Wu

Question answering (QA) over tables and linked text, also called TextTableQA, has witnessed significant research in recent years, as tables are often found embedded in documents along with related text. HybridQA and OTT-QA are the two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Vishwajeet Kumar , Yash Gupta , Saneem Chemmengath , Jaydeep Sen , Soumen Chakrabarti , Samarth Bharadwaj , FeiFei Pan

We study a new problem setting of question answering (QA), referred to as DocTabQA. Within this setting, given a long document, the goal is to respond to questions by organizing the answers into structured tables derived directly from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haochen Wang , Kai Hu , Haoyu Dong , Liangcai Gao

Advanced table question answering (TableQA) methods prompt large language models (LLMs) to generate answer text, SQL query, Python code, or custom operation, which impressively improve the complex reasoning problems in the TableQA task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhongyuan Wang , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie , Hangyu Mao

Table-and-text hybrid question answering (HybridQA) is a widely used and challenging NLP task commonly applied in the financial and scientific domain. The early research focuses on migrating other QA task methods to HybridQA, while with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Dingzirui Wang , Longxu Dou , Wanxiang Che

Visual reasoning over structured data such as tables is a critical capability for modern vision-language models (VLMs), yet current benchmarks remain limited in scale, diversity, or reasoning depth, especially when it comes to rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Boammani Aser Lompo , Marc Haraoui

Table Question Answering (TableQA) enables natural language interaction with structured tabular data. However, existing large language model (LLM) approaches face critical limitations: context length constraints that restrict data handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tong Wang , Chi Jin , Yongkang Chen , Huan Deng , Xiaohui Kuang , Gang Zhao

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

Tabular data is a fundamental component of real-world information systems, yet most research in table understanding remains confined to English, leaving multilingual comprehension significantly underexplored. Existing multilingual table…

Existing question answering datasets focus on dealing with homogeneous information, based either only on text or KB/Table information alone. However, as human knowledge is distributed over heterogeneous forms, using homogeneous information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Zhiyu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Hong Wang , William Wang

To migrate the remarkable successes of Large Language Models (LLMs), the community has made numerous efforts to generalize them to the table reasoning tasks for the widely deployed tabular data. Despite that, in this work, by showing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Liyao Li , Chao Ye , Wentao Ye , Yifei Sun , Zhe Jiang , Haobo Wang , Jiaming Tian , Yiming Zhang , Ningtao Wang , Xing Fu , Gang Chen , Junbo Zhao

Due to the concise and structured nature of tables, the knowledge contained therein may be incomplete or missing, posing a significant challenge for table question answering (TableQA) and data analysis systems. Most existing datasets either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mengkang Hu , Haoyu Dong , Ping Luo , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Table Question Answering (Table QA) refers to providing precise answers from tables to answer a user's question. In recent years, there have been a lot of works on table QA, but there is a lack of comprehensive surveys on this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Nengzheng Jin , Joanna Siebert , Dongfang Li , Qingcai Chen

Weakly-supervised table question-answering(TableQA) models have achieved state-of-art performance by using pre-trained BERT transformer to jointly encoding a question and a table to produce structured query for the question. However, in…

While recent advances in large language models have significantly improved Text-to-SQL and table question answering systems, most existing approaches assume that all query-relevant information is explicitly represented in structured…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Nima Shahbazi , Seiji Maekawa , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka

The complexities of table structures and question logic make table-based question answering (TQA) tasks challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), often requiring task simplification before solving. This paper reveals that the reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruya Jiang , Chun Wang , Weihong Deng