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title = "Tab-{C}o{T}: Zero-shot Tabular Chain of Thought",
author = "Ziqi, Jin and
Lu, Wei",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.651",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.651",
pages = "10259--10277",
abstract = "The chain-of-though (CoT) prompting methods were successful in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks thanks to their ability to unveil the underlying complex reasoning processes. Such reasoning processes typically exhibit highly structured steps. Recent efforts also started investigating methods to encourage more structured reasoning procedures to be captured (cite least to most).In this work, we propose Tab-CoT, a novel tabular-format CoT prompting method, which allows the complex reasoning process to be explicitly modeled in a highly structured manner. Despite its simplicity, we show that our approach is capable of performing reasoning across multiple dimensions (i.e., both rows and columns).We demonstrate our approach{'}s strong zero-shot and few-shot capabilities through extensive experiments on a range of reasoning tasks.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Tab-CoT: Zero-shot Tabular Chain of Thought](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.651) (Ziqi & Lu, Findings 2023)
ACL
- Jin Ziqi and Wei Lu. 2023. Tab-CoT: Zero-shot Tabular Chain of Thought. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 10259–10277, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.