Leveraging Language-based Representations for Better Solving Symbol-related Problems with Large Language Models (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Symbols are used in abstract reasoning, chemical property prediction, and tabular question-answering. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that converts symbols to language-based representations to improve their accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the accuracy of symbols in language-based models. |
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