Title: Table Question Answering

Abstract: In this talk, I discuss my research on question answering over semi-structured tables. Semi-structured tables are fact-heavy and pose significant challenges to language models aiming to effectively meet a user’s information needs. To understand these challenges, I discuss various tasks such as question answering and summarization over multiple tabular contexts and low-resource table question answering. Finally, I briefly discuss information retrieval over tables.

Bio: Vaishali is a final-year PhD candidate at the Information Retrieval Lab at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are in the natural language processing and information retrieval, with a focus on semi-structured tables.Logistic details:

Date and time: Thursday 22 May, 4-5pm CEST
Location: L3.33 in LAB42, University of Amsterdam, Science Park
Zoom link: https://cwi-nl-zoom.zoom.us/j/86928893058?pwd=0tFURmzfFWXtWyN4xqkx15urhoui7b.1.