Transformers for tabular data representation: A tutorial on models and applications

G Badaro, P Papotti - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In the last few years, the natural language processing community witnessed advances in
neural representations of free texts with transformer-based language models (LMs). Given …

Transformers for tabular data representation: A survey of models and applications

G Badaro, M Saeed, P Papotti - Transactions of the Association for …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
In the last few years, the natural language processing community has witnessed advances
in neural representations of free texts with transformer-based language models (LMs). Given …

Querying large language models with SQL

M Saeed, N De Cao, P Papotti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00472, 2023 - arxiv.org
In many use-cases, information is stored in text but not available in structured data.
However, extracting data from natural language text to precisely fit a schema, and thus …

Data ambiguity profiling for the generation of training examples

E Veltri, G Badaro, M Saeed… - 2023 IEEE 39th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several applications, such as text-to-SQL and computational fact checking, exploit the
relationship between relational data and natural language text. However, state of the art …

Generation of training examples for tabular natural language inference

JF Bussotti, E Veltri, D Santoro, P Papotti - … of the ACM on Management of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Tabular data is becoming increasingly important in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tasks, such as Tabular Natural Language Inference (TNLI). Given a table and a hypothesis …

Models and Practice of Neural Table Representations

M Hulsebos, X Deng, H Sun, P Papotti - Companion of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the last few years, the natural language processing community witnessed advances in
neural representations of free-form text with transformer-based language models (LMs) …

[PDF][PDF] A DB-first approach to query factual information in llms

M Saeed, N De Cao, P Papotti - NeurIPS 2023 Second Table …, 2023 - eurecom.fr
Declarative querying is one of the main features behind the popularity of database systems.
However, SQL can be executed only on structured datasets, leaving out of immediate reach …

[PDF][PDF] Ambiguity detection and textual claims generation from relational data

E Veltri, D Santoro, B Gilbert, S Mohammed… - CEUR WORKSHOP …, 2022 - iris.unibas.it
Computational fact checking,(given a textual claim and a table, verify if the claim holds wrt
the given data) and data-to-text generation (given a subset of cells, produce a sentence …

Attribute Ambiguity Discovery: A Deep Learning Approach via Unsupervised Learning

E Veltri, G Badaro, M Saeed, P Papotti - CEUR WORKSHOP …, 2023 - iris.unibas.it
Several applications, such as text-to-SQL and computational fact checking, exploit the
relationship between relational data and natural language text. However, state of the art …

[HTML][HTML] Detective Gadget: Generic Iterative Entity Resolution over Dirty Data

M Buoncristiano, G Mecca, D Santoro, E Veltri - Data, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the era of Big Data, entity resolution (ER), ie, the process of identifying which records refer
to the same entity in the real world, plays a critical role in data-integration tasks, especially in …