International Business Machines Corporation
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TABLE RETRIEVAL USING MULTIMODAL DEEP CO-LEARNING WITH HELPER QUERY-DEPENDENT AND QUERY-INDEPENDENT RELEVANCE LABELS

Abstract:

A system and a computer-implemented method for ranking tabular data entities by likelihood of comprising answers for (natural language) queries, based on multimodal descriptions of the tabular data entities, comprising separate representations, which represent different aspects of the tabular data entities. The ranking is based on joint representations, generated from the query representation and separate representations of the tabular data entities' aspects, using gated multimodal units. The computer-implemented method may be used for applications such as web searches, data aggregation, and research tasks.