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title = "{INFOTABS}: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data",
author = "Gupta, Vivek and
Mehta, Maitrey and
Nokhiz, Pegah and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.210",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.210",
pages = "2309--2324",
abstract = "In this paper, we observe that semi-structured tabulated text is ubiquitous; understanding them requires not only comprehending the meaning of text fragments, but also implicit relationships between them. We argue that such data can prove as a testing ground for understanding how we reason about information. To study this, we introduce a new dataset called INFOTABS, comprising of human-written textual hypotheses based on premises that are tables extracted from Wikipedia info-boxes. Our analysis shows that the semi-structured, multi-domain and heterogeneous nature of the premises admits complex, multi-faceted reasoning. Experiments reveal that, while human annotators agree on the relationships between a table-hypothesis pair, several standard modeling strategies are unsuccessful at the task, suggesting that reasoning about tables can pose a difficult modeling challenge.",
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%A Gupta, Vivek
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%A Nokhiz, Pegah
%A Srikumar, Vivek
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Markdown (Informal)
[INFOTABS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.210) (Gupta et al., ACL 2020)
ACL
- Vivek Gupta, Maitrey Mehta, Pegah Nokhiz, and Vivek Srikumar. 2020. INFOTABS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2309–2324, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.