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Controlled table-to-text generation seeks to generate natural language descriptions for highlighted subparts of a table. Previous SOTA systems still employ a sequence-to-sequence generation method, which merely captures the table as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fei Wang , Zhewei Xu , Pedro Szekely , Muhao Chen

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

Can LLM agents explore codebases and reason about code semantics without executing the code? We study this capability, which we call agentic code reasoning, and introduce semi-formal reasoning: a structured prompting methodology that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shubham Ugare , Satish Chandra

Computed Tomography (CT) scan, which produces 3D volumetric medical data that can be viewed as hundreds of cross-sectional images (a.k.a. slices), provides detailed anatomical information for diagnosis. For radiologists, creating CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yuren Mao , Wenyi Xu , Yuyang Qin , Yunjun Gao

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

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

Extracting tables from documents is a critical task across various industries, especially on business documents like invoices and reports. Existing systems based on DEtection TRansformer (DETR) such as TAble TRansformer (TATR), offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eliott Thomas , Mickael Coustaty , Aurelie Joseph , Gaspar Deloin , Elodie Carel , Vincent Poulain D'Andecy , Jean-Marc Ogier

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

Since many real-world documents combine textual and tabular data, robust Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are essential for effectively accessing and analyzing such content to support complex reasoning tasks. Therefore, this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jan Strich , Enes Kutay Isgorur , Maximilian Trescher , Chris Biemann , Martin Semmann

In recent years, with the rapid advancement of transformer models, transformer-based multimodal architectures have found wide application in various downstream tasks, including but not limited to Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yuduo Wang , Pedram Ghamisi

We introduce AgenticSimLaw, a role-structured, multi-agent debate framework that provides transparent and controllable test-time reasoning for high-stakes tabular decision-making tasks. Unlike black-box approaches, our courtroom-style…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jon Chun , Kathrine Elkins , Yong Suk Lee

Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments. The primary limitation lies in their reliance on static schema representations, which fails to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bowen Cao , Weibin Liao , Yushi Sun , Dong Fang , Haitao Li , Wai Lam

Regulatory compliance question answering (QA) requires precise, verifiable information, and domain-specific expertise, posing challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we present a novel multi-agent framework that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Bhavik Agarwal , Hemant Sunil Jomraj , Simone Kaplunov , Jack Krolick , Viktoria Rojkova

Humans observe and interact with the world to acquire knowledge. However, most existing machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks miss the interactive, information-seeking component of comprehension. Such tasks present models with static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Cote , Jie Fu , Zhouhan Lin , Christopher Pal , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

Diet plays a central role in human health, and Nutrition Question Answering (QA) offers a promising path toward personalized dietary guidance and the prevention of diet-related chronic diseases. However, existing methods face two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kaiwen Shi , Zheyuan Zhang , Zhengqing Yuan , Keerthiram Murugesan , Vincent Galass , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Complex dialog systems often use retrieved evidence to facilitate factual responses. Such RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems retrieve from massive heterogeneous data stores that are usually architected as multiple indexes or APIs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ashutosh Joshi , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , Samarth Varshney , Sreyashi Nag , Shrivats Agrawal , Juhi Naik

Document-grounded dialogue systems aim to answer user queries by leveraging external information. Previous studies have mainly focused on handling free-form documents, often overlooking structured data such as lists, which can represent a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Mujeen Sung , Song Feng , James Gung , Raphael Shu , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

Table retrieval is the task of retrieving the most relevant tables from large-scale corpora given natural language queries. However, structural and semantic discrepancies between unstructured text and structured tables make embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Shui-Hsiang Hsu , Tsung-Hsiang Chou , Chen-Jui Yu , Yao-Chung Fan

Multi-hop question answering (QA) necessitates multi-step reasoning and retrieval across interconnected subjects, attributes, and relations. Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods struggle to capture these structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jimeng Shi , Wei Hu , Runchu Tian , Bowen Jin , Wonbin Kweon , SeongKu Kang , Yunfan Kang , Dingqi Ye , Sizhe Zhou , Shaowen Wang , Jiawei Han

Tables condense key transactional and administrative information into compact layouts, but practical extraction requires more than text recognition: systems must also recover structure (rows, columns, merged cells, headers) and interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Thierry Paquet