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TaBERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular Data

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Yin, Pengcheng, Neubig, Graham, Yih, Wen-tau, Riedel, Sebastian·2020·Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Recent years have witnessed the burgeoning of pretrained language models (LMs) for textbased natural language (NL) understanding tasks.Such models are typically trained on free-form NL text, hence may not be suitable for tasks like semantic parsing over structured data, which require reasoning over both free-form NL questions and structured tabular data (e.g., database tables).In this paper we present TABERT, a pretrained LM that jointly learns representations for NL sentences and (semi-)structured tables.TABERT is trained on a large corpus of 26 million tables and their English contexts.In experiments, neural semantic parsers using TABERT as feature representation layers achieve new best results on the challenging weakly-supervised semantic parsing benchmark WIKITABLEQUESTIONS, while performing competitively on the text-to-SQL dataset SPIDER. 1

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Authors
Yin, P., Neubig, G., Yih, W.-T., & Riedel, S.
Affiliations
Meta (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Published
2020
Pages
8413-8426
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3035231859
Cited by
487
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 68 · 2025: 86 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 84 · 2020: 12
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24.93
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conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
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  • Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
pre-trained language models, tabular data, semantic parsing, structured data, natural language understanding, text-to-SQL, spiders, database tables

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