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Summary of Piece Of Table: a Divide-and-conquer Approach For Selecting Subtables in Table Question Answering, by Wonjin Lee et al.


Piece of Table: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Selecting Subtables in Table Question Answering

by Wonjin Lee, Kyumin Kim, Sungjae Lee, Jihun Lee, Kwang In Kim

First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Dec 2024

Categories

  • Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
  • Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
The paper proposes a novel framework called PieTa for question answering (QA) in tables. Traditional language models are not well-suited for tabular data due to structural differences and limitations in understanding context across large tables. PieTa addresses these challenges through an iterative process of dividing tables into smaller windows, selecting relevant cells using language models, and merging them into a subtable. This multi-resolution approach captures dependencies across multiple rows and columns while avoiding the limitations caused by long context inputs.
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PieTa is a new framework for question answering in tables that helps machines understand complex data structures better. The problem is that language models were designed to work with text, not tables. PieTa uses an iterative process to break down big tables into smaller parts, select important cells using language models, and combine them into a smaller table. This way, it can capture relationships between different rows and columns in the table.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Question answering