From Numbers to Narratives: Efficient Language Model-Based Detection for Safety-Critical Minority Classes (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Tabular datasets with high overall accuracy and poor performance on minority classes are often misaligned . a numbers to narratives framework improves overall accuracy by up to 22.43% in five of six datasets while maintaining computational feasibility. |
| Approach: | They propose a number-to-narrative framework that transforms tabular data into contextually rich descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves superior minority class F1-scores in five of six datasets. |
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