Table Retrieval

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

1 leaderboard table shown for this task, 1 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

2 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

15 shown of 15 papers with code (27 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity
  16 Feb 2018 2 repositories listed
  Specifically, we (i) represent queries and tables in multiple semantic spaces (both discrete sparse and continuous dense vector representations) and (ii) introduce various similarity measures for matching those semantic…
• Pneuma: Leveraging LLMs for Tabular Data Representation and Retrieval in an End-to-End System
  12 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Pneuma leverages large language models (LLMs) for both table representation and table retrieval.
• MURRE: Multi-Hop Table Retrieval with Removal for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL
  16 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  The open-domain text-to-SQL task aims to retrieve question-relevant tables from massive databases and generate SQL.
• Simulating Users in Interactive Web Table Retrieval
  18 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Our multi-perspective evaluation scheme reveals new insights about query strategies, the impact of modalities, and different user types in simulated WTR search sessions.
• Enhancing Open-Domain Table Question Answering via Syntax- and Structure-aware Dense Retrieval
  19 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  Open-domain table question answering aims to provide answers to a question by retrieving and extracting information from a large collection of tables.
• The StatCan Dialogue Dataset: Retrieving Data Tables through Conversations with Genuine Intents
  3 Apr 2023 1 repository listed
  We introduce the StatCan Dialogue Dataset consisting of 19, 379 conversation turns between agents working at Statistics Canada and online users looking for published data tables.
• cTBLS: Augmenting Large Language Models with Conversational Tables
  21 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Optimizing accuracy and performance while eliminating hallucinations of open-domain conversational large language models (LLMs) is an open research challenge.
• Table Retrieval May Not Necessitate Table-specific Model Design
  19 May 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 12 samples · 5 unverified
  In this work, we focus on the task of table retrieval, and ask: "is table-specific model design necessary for table retrieval, or can a simpler text-based model be effectively used to achieve a similar result?"
• StruBERT: Structure-aware BERT for Table Search and Matching
  27 Mar 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 13 samples · 11 unverified
  In this paper, we propose StruBERT, a structure-aware BERT model that fuses the textual and structural information of a data table to produce context-aware representations for both textual and tabular content of a data…
• CLTR: An End-to-End, Transformer-Based System for Cell Level Table Retrieval and Table Question Answering
  8 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  We present the first end-to-end, transformer-based table question answering (QA) system that takes natural language questions and massive table corpus as inputs to retrieve the most relevant tables and locate the…
• Semantic Table Retrieval using Keyword and Table Queries
  13 May 2021 1 repository listed
  The main novel contribution of this work is a semantic table retrieval framework for matching information needs (keyword or table queries) against tables.
• WTR: A Test Collection for Web Table Retrieval
  5 May 2021 1 repository listed
  We describe the development, characteristics and availability of a test collection for the task of Web table retrieval, which uses a large-scale Web Table Corpora extracted from the Common Crawl.
• Retrieving Complex Tables with Multi-Granular Graph Representation Learning
  4 May 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  The task of natural language table retrieval (NLTR) seeks to retrieve semantically relevant tables based on natural language queries.
• Table Search Using a Deep Contextualized Language Model
  19 May 2020 1 repository listed
  Pretrained contextualized language models such as BERT have achieved impressive results on various natural language processing benchmarks.
• Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval
  31 May 2019 1 repository listed
  Tables contain valuable knowledge in a structured form.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.