CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 8: Enhancing Question Answering on Tabular Data with Two-Stage Corrections

Chenlian Zhou, Xilu Cai, Yajuan Tong, Chengzhao Wu, Xin Xu, Guanyi Chen, Tingting He


Abstract
We present the system developed by the Central China Normal University (CCNU) team for the SemEval-2025 shared task 8, which focuses on Question-Answering (QA) for tabular data. Our approach leverages multiple Large Language Models (LLMs), conducting tabular QA as code completion. Additionally, to improve its reliability, we introduce a two-stage corrections mechanism, in which we instruct the LLM to correct the code according to the judges of whether the code is executable and whether the answer obtained from executing the code is semantically consistent with the question. The experiment demonstrates that code correction works but answer correction does not. Finally, we discuss other unsuccessful approaches explored during our development process.
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2025.semeval-1.115
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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841–845
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Chenlian Zhou, Xilu Cai, Yajuan Tong, Chengzhao Wu, Xin Xu, Guanyi Chen, and Tingting He. 2025. CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 8: Enhancing Question Answering on Tabular Data with Two-Stage Corrections. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 841–845, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 8: Enhancing Question Answering on Tabular Data with Two-Stage Corrections (Zhou et al., SemEval 2025)
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