@article{ettaleb-etal-2026-retat,
    title = "{R}e{T}a{T}: A Unified Benchmark for Relation Extraction across Text and Table",
    author = "Ettaleb, Mohamed  and
      Ehrhart, Thibault  and
      Aussenac-Gilles, Nathalie  and
      Chabot, Yoan  and
      Kamel, Mouna  and
      MORICEAU, V{\'e}ronique  and
      Troncy, Raphael  and
      Wei, Fanfu",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.104/",
    pages = "1341--1351",
    abstract = "While prior work in Information Extraction (IE) has focused on extracting information from either textual content or tables in isolation, they miss critical information that emerges only from their interplay. Indeed, tables may summarize facts sparse in the text, while text can disambiguate or elaborate on table entries. This complementarity may take the form of relations which are expressed across text and tables. In this context, we are interested in the task of extracting such relations whose expression spans the two modalities. This task is an original one, for which no reference evaluation corpora exists. Thus we created ReTaT, a corpus that can be used to train and evaluate systems for extracting such relations. This corpus is composed of (table, surrounding text) pairs extracted from Wikipedia pages and has been manually annotated with relation triples. ReTaT is organized in three datasets with distinct characteristics: domain (business, telecommunication and female celebrities), size (from 50 to 255 pairs), language (English vs French), type of relations (data vs object properties), close vs open list of relation, size of the surrounding text (paragraph vs full page). We then assessed its quality and suitability for the joint table-text relation extraction task using Large Language Models (LLMs), at a time when LLMs have demonstrated their ability to extract relations from either text or tables in isolation."
}