Incorporating External Knowledge to Enhance Tabular Reasoning

J. Neeraja; Vivek Gupta; Vivek Srikumar

NAACL 2021long41 citations

Incorporating External Knowledge to Enhance Tabular Reasoning

Abstract

Reasoning about tabular information presents unique challenges to modern NLP approaches which largely rely on pre-trained contextualized embeddings of text. In this paper, we study these challenges through the problem of tabular natural language inference. We propose easy and effective modifications to how information is presented to a model for this task. We show via systematic experiments that these strategies substantially improve tabular inference performance.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{neeraja-etal-2021-incorporating,
    title = "Incorporating External Knowledge to Enhance Tabular Reasoning",
    author = "Neeraja, J.  and
      Gupta, Vivek  and
      Srikumar, Vivek",
    editor = "Toutanova, Kristina  and
      Rumshisky, Anna  and
      Zettlemoyer, Luke  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Beltagy, Iz  and
      Bethard, Steven  and
      Cotterell, Ryan  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Zhou, Yichao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.224/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.224",
    pages = "2799--2809"
}