通过语义聚类与加权融合,提升表格与查询的语义对齐效果。
STAR: Semantic Table Representation with Header-Aware Clustering and Adaptive Weighted Fusion
- 基于表头感知的聚类,生成多样化的局部表格实例。
- 在五个数据集上召回率全面超越QGpT,最高提升3.2%。
- 适合需要精准表格检索的应用,如知识库问答与数据分析。
表格检索旨在给定自然语言查询时,从大规模语料库中找出最相关的表格。然而,非结构化文本与结构化表格之间的结构和语义差异,使得嵌入对齐尤为困难。现有方法如QGpT虽通过生成合成查询丰富表格语义,但仍依赖粗粒度的局部表格采样和简单融合策略,限制了语义多样性并阻碍有效对齐。本文提出轻量级框架STAR(Semantic Table Representation),通过语义聚类与自适应加权融合改进表格语义表示。STAR首先采用表头感知的K-means聚类,将语义相似的行分组,并选取代表性中心点构建多样化局部表格;随后为每个聚类生成特定合成查询,全面覆盖表格语义空间;最后采用加权融合策略整合表格与查询嵌入,实现细粒度语义对齐。该设计能有效融合结构化与文本信息,增强表格表示能力。在五个基准测试上的实验表明,STAR在所有数据集上均取得优于QGpT的召回率,验证了语义聚类与自适应加权融合对鲁棒表格表示的有效性。代码已开源:https://github.com/adsl135789/STAR。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Table retrieval is the task of retrieving the most relevant tables from large-scale corpora given natural language queries. However, structural and semantic discrepancies between unstructured text and structured tables make embedding alignment particularly challenging. Recent methods such as QGpT attempt to enrich table semantics by generating synthetic queries, yet they still rely on coarse partial-table sampling and simple fusion strategies, which limit semantic diversity and hinder effective query-table alignment. We propose STAR (Semantic Table Representation), a lightweight framework that improves semantic table representation through semantic clustering and weighted fusion. STAR first applies header-aware K-means clustering to group semantically similar rows and selects representative centroid instances to construct a diverse partial table. It then generates cluster-specific synthetic queries to comprehensively cover the table's semantic space. Finally, STAR employs weighted fusion strategies to integrate table and query embeddings, enabling fine-grained semantic alignment. This design enables STAR to capture complementary information from structured and textual sources, improving the expressiveness of table representations. Experiments on five benchmarks show that STAR achieves consistently higher Recall than QGpT on all datasets, demonstrating the effectiveness of semantic clustering and adaptive weighted fusion for robust table representation. Our code is available at https://github.com/adsl135789/STAR.
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