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Large Language Models (LLMs), while being increasingly dominant on a myriad of knowledge-intensive activities, have only had limited success understanding lengthy table-text mixtures, such as academic papers and financial reports. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yikang Pan , Yi Zhu , Rand Xie , Yizhi Liu

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…

Table Question Answering (Table QA) in real-world settings must operate over both structured databases and semi-structured tables containing textual fields. However, existing benchmarks are tied to fixed data formats and have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yue Zhang , Seiji Maekawa , Nikita Bhutani

Medical question-answering (QA) is a critical task for evaluating how effectively large language models (LLMs) encode clinical knowledge and assessing their potential applications in medicine. Despite showing promise on multiple-choice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guangfu Guo , Kai Zhang , Bryan Hoo , Yujun Cai , Xiaoqian Lu , Nanyun Peng , Yiwei Wang

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

TableQA is the task of answering questions over tables of structured information, returning individual cells or tables as output. TableQA research has focused primarily on high-resource languages, leaving medium- and low-resource languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vaishali Pal , Evangelos Kanoulas , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

We present ExpliCIT-QA, a system that extends our previous MRT approach for tabular question answering into a multimodal pipeline capable of handling complex table images and providing explainable answers. ExpliCIT-QA follows a modular…

Tabular question answering (TQA) presents a challenging setting for neural systems by requiring joint reasoning of natural language with large amounts of semi-structured data. Unlike humans who use programmatic tools like filters to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Carlos Gemmell , Jeffrey Dalton

We explore generating factual and accurate tables from the parametric knowledge of large language models (LLMs). While LLMs have demonstrated impressive capabilities in recreating knowledge bases and generating free-form text, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yevgeni Berkovitch , Oren Glickman , Amit Somech , Tomer Wolfson

Table Question Answering (TableQA) attracts strong interests due to the prevalence of web information presented in the form of semi-structured tables. Despite many efforts, TableQA over large tables remains an open challenge. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuxiang Wang , Junhao Gan , Jianzhong Qi

Temporal tabular question answering presents a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), requiring robust reasoning over structured data, which is a task where traditional prompting methods often fall short. These methods face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Atharv Kulkarni , Kushagra Dixit , Vivek Srikumar , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

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

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

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

Existing table question answering datasets contain abundant factual questions that primarily evaluate the query and schema comprehension capability of a system, but they fail to include questions that require complex reasoning and…

Quantitative reasoning is a critical skill to analyze data, yet the assessment of such ability remains limited. To address this gap, we introduce the Quantitative Reasoning with Data (QRData) benchmark, aiming to evaluate Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiao Liu , Zirui Wu , Xueqing Wu , Pan Lu , Kai-Wei Chang , Yansong Feng

Understanding data visualizations like charts and plots requires reasoning about both visual elements and numerics. Although strong in extractive questions, current chart visual question answering (chart VQA) models suffer on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhuowan Li , Bhavan Jasani , Peng Tang , Shabnam Ghadar

Large models have demonstrated significant progress across various domains, particularly in tasks related to text generation. In the domain of Table to Text, many Large Language Model (LLM)-based methods currently resort to modifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Junyi Bian , Xiaolei Qin , Wuhe Zou , Mengzuo Huang , Congyi Luo , Ke Zhang , Weidong Zhang

While Small Language Models (SLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on an increasingly wide array of commonsense reasoning benchmarks, current evaluation practices rely almost exclusively on the accuracy of their final answers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Francesco Maria Molfese , Luca Moroni , Ciro Porcaro , Simone Conia , Roberto Navigli

As Large Language Models for Code (LM4Code) become integral to software engineering, establishing trust in their output becomes critical. However, standard accuracy metrics obscure the underlying reasoning of generative models, offering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dipin Khati , Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , David N. Palacio , Alejandro Velasco , Michele Tufano , Denys Poshyvanyk