Abstract
We propose a sub-table rescorer (STR) to improve the performance of an inner table retriever (ITR)-based inference for the table question answering. Tabular language model (TLM) truncates the sequence of a long table due to their input token limits. It leads to accuracy degradation. To solve this problem, ITR extracts sub-table candidates, which correspond to a part of an entire greater original table on the basis of relevance scores to the question for each of the columns and rows. Then, the topN longest sub-tables are selected. Our proposed STR estimates the relevance score between a question and each sub-table. In this work, we explored two different methods to integrate STR to the ITR-based inference. In the first method, STR rescores sub-table candidates, and the topN sub-tables are chosen. Then, TLM outputs the most confident answer. In the second method, the score calculated by STR is interpolated with the score calculated by TLM. Then, the most confident answer is chosen. In the experiment, we evaluate the performance on the WikiTableQuestions dataset. By applying STR to the ITR-based inference, we observed 4.4% and 6.3% relative reductions in error rate in the rescoring- and score-fusion-based methods, respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.1339
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 15422–15427
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1339
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Atsushi Kojima. 2024. Sub-Table Rescorer for Table Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 15422–15427, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Sub-Table Rescorer for Table Question Answering (Kojima, LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2024.lrec-main.1339.pdf