Data visualization in the form of charts plays a pivotal role in data analysis, offering critical
insights and aiding in informed decision-making. Automatic chart understanding has …

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both
industry and academia to develop approaches for misinformation detection and fact …

Given the ubiquity of charts as a data analysis, visualization, and decision-making tool
across industries and sciences, there has been a growing interest in developing pre-trained …

Recently, many versatile Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged
continuously. However, their capacity to query information depicted in visual charts and …

Charts provide visual representations of data and are widely used for analyzing information,
addressing queries, and conveying insights to others. Various chart-related downstream …

Fact-checking data claims requires data evidence retrieval and analysis, which can become
tedious and intractable when done manually. This work presents Aletheia, an automated fact …

The web has become a crucial source of information, but it is also used to spread
disinformation, often conveyed through multiple modalities like images and text. The …

Crafting accurate and insightful narratives from data visualization is essential in data
storytelling. Like creative writing, where one reads to write a story, data professionals must …

Semi-structured tabular data, such as ones in e-commerce product descriptions, annual
financial reports, sports score statistics, scientific articles, etc., are ubiquitous in real-world …