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author = "Grijalba, Jorge Os{\'e}s and
Ure{\~n}a, L. Alfonso and
Mart{\'i}nez-C{\'a}mara, Eugenio and
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abstract = "Question Answering on Tabular Data (or Table Question Answering) has seen tremendous advances with the coming of new generation Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite this, significant challenges still remain to be solved if we are to develop robust enough approaches for general usage. One of these is ambiguity in question answering, which historically has not merited much attention due to the previously limited capabilities of LLMs. In this work, we outlay the main types of ambiguousness inherent to tabular data. Then, we discuss how they are influenced by the way our models interact with the information stored in the tables, and we test the capabilities of some LLMs in detecting them. This work provides an initial ground for a deeper discussion on how to approach ambiguity in Tabular Data in the age of LLMs."
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%T The Problem of Ambiguity in Table Question Answering
%A Grijalba, Jorge Osés
%A Ureña, L. Alfonso
%A Martínez-Cámara, Eugenio
%A Camacho-Collados, Jose
%Y Demberg, Vera
%Y Inui, Kentaro
%Y Marquez, Lluís
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%@ 979-8-89176-386-9
%F grijalba-etal-2026-problem
%X Question Answering on Tabular Data (or Table Question Answering) has seen tremendous advances with the coming of new generation Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite this, significant challenges still remain to be solved if we are to develop robust enough approaches for general usage. One of these is ambiguity in question answering, which historically has not merited much attention due to the previously limited capabilities of LLMs. In this work, we outlay the main types of ambiguousness inherent to tabular data. Then, we discuss how they are influenced by the way our models interact with the information stored in the tables, and we test the capabilities of some LLMs in detecting them. This work provides an initial ground for a deeper discussion on how to approach ambiguity in Tabular Data in the age of LLMs.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.199/
%P 3835-3848
Markdown (Informal)
[The Problem of Ambiguity in Table Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.199/) (Grijalba et al., Findings 2026)
ACL
- Jorge Osés Grijalba, L. Alfonso Ureña, Eugenio Martínez-Cámara, and Jose Camacho-Collados. 2026. The Problem of Ambiguity in Table Question Answering. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 3835–3848, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.