Answering questions about charts and generating visual explanations

DH Kim, E Hoque, M Agrawala - … of the 2020 CHI conference on human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
People often use charts to analyze data, answer questions and explain their answers to
others. In a formative study, we find that such human-generated questions and explanations …

Chartqa: A benchmark for question answering about charts with visual and logical reasoning

A Masry, DX Long, JQ Tan, S Joty, E Hoque - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a
variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic …

Unichart: A universal vision-language pretrained model for chart comprehension and reasoning

A Masry, P Kavehzadeh, XL Do, E Hoque… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Charts are very popular for analyzing data, visualizing key insights and answering complex
reasoning questions about data. To facilitate chart-based data analysis using natural …

Chart question answering: State of the art and future directions

E Hoque, P Kavehzadeh, A Masry - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for
analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer …

Dvqa: Understanding data visualizations via question answering

K Kafle, B Price, S Cohen… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot
parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance …

Chartreader: A unified framework for chart derendering and comprehension without heuristic rules

ZQ Cheng, Q Dai… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Charts are a powerful tool for visually conveying complex data, but their comprehension
poses a challenge due to the diverse chart types and intricate components. Existing chart …

Towards understanding how readers integrate charts and captions: A case study with line charts

DH Kim, V Setlur, M Agrawala - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Charts often contain visually prominent features that draw attention to aspects of the data
and include text captions that emphasize aspects of the data. Through a crowdsourced …

Leaf-qa: Locate, encode & attend for figure question answering

R Chaudhry, S Shekhar, U Gupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce LEAF-QA, a comprehensive dataset of 250,000 densely annotated
figures/charts, constructed from real-world open data sources, along with 2 million question …

STL-CQA: Structure-based transformers with localization and encoding for chart question answering

H Singh, S Shekhar - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Chart Question Answering (CQA) is the task of answering natural language
questions about visualisations in the chart image. Recent solutions, inspired by VQA …

Chart-to-text: Generating natural language descriptions for charts by adapting the transformer model

J Obeid, E Hoque - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09142, 2020 - arxiv.org
Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very popular for exploring
data and communicating insights. Interpreting and making sense of such visualizations can …