S3HQA: A Three-Stage Approach for Multi-hop Text-Table Hybrid Question Answering (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing question answering systems use a retriever-reader framework to answer multi-hop questions . existing models lack retrieval, selector, and reasoner capabilities . |
| Approach: | They propose a three-stage text tableQA framework which comprises of retriever, selector, and reasoner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods in the few-shot setting and ranks first on the HybridQA leaderboard. |
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