@inproceedings{kwack-etal-2025-theme,
    title = "Theme-Explanation Structure for Table Summarization using Large Language Models: A Case Study on {K}orean Tabular Data",
    author = "Kwack, TaeYoon  and
      Kim, Jisoo  and
      Jung, Ki Yong  and
      Lee, DongGeon  and
      Park, Heesun",
    editor = "Chang, Shuaichen  and
      Hulsebos, Madelon  and
      Liu, Qian  and
      Chen, Wenhu  and
      Sun, Huan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Table Representation Learning Workshop",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/acl25-workshop-ingestion/2025.trl-workshop.1/",
    pages = "1--12",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-268-8",
    abstract = "Tables are a primary medium for conveying critical information in administrative domains, yet their complexity hinders utilization by Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces the Theme-Explanation Structure-based Table Summarization (Tabular-TX) pipeline, a novel approach designed to generate highly interpretable summaries from tabular data, with a specific focus on Korean administrative documents. Current table summarization methods often neglect the crucial aspect of human-friendly output. Tabular-TX addresses this by first employing a multi-step reasoning process to ensure deep table comprehension by LLMs, followed by a journalist persona prompting strategy for clear sentence generation. Crucially, it then structures the output into a Theme Part (an adverbial phrase) and an Explanation Part (a predicative clause), significantly enhancing readability. Our approach leverages in-context learning, obviating the need for extensive fine-tuning and associated labeled data or computational resources. Experimental results show that Tabular-TX effectively processes complex table structures and metadata, offering a robust and efficient solution for generating human-centric table summaries, especially in low-resource scenarios."
}