Seminars relevant to Informatics

[Pauline Patel <pauline.patel AT ed.ac.uk>]

REMINDER:

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Dear all,

Please attend our joint ILCC/ CDT NLP seminar talk by Madelon Hulsebos, on September 4, 2026 at 11:00-12:00. 

Speaker: Madelon Hulsebos, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

Room: Bayes Theorem and MS Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/342968376267588?p=P2NmMco5zINk3aNpqp)

Title: On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning

Abstract: The value of tabular data is clear: it fuels our understanding of, and decision-making in, many organizational processes. In this talk, I will first address the need to assess the sensitivity of a (tabular) dataset, to avoid that it ends up in the wrong "hands". I'll revisit the notion of sensitive data, and argue that the sensitivity of data is defined by its context, and goes beyond personal identifiable information (PII). Building on this contextual notion, I will present a framework for assessing data sensitivity of any kind, which we developed in collaboration with the United Nations OCHA Humanitarian Data Centre. In the second part of the talk, I will move from semantic to analytical reasoning over tabular data and introduce the SQaLe dataset, the first large-scale text-to-SQL dataset that is grounded in thousands of real-world database schemas. I will present its multi-purpose properties, and how it instruments our vision for small specialized text-to-SQL models. The talk closes with a preview of our latest work around foundation models and agents for predictive reasoning over tabular data, and a reflection on the different characteristics and challenges that surface across these different flavors of tabular reasoning.

Book a meeting: For staff or students who’d like to meet with Madelon Hulsebos during their visit please check availability using the booking form.

Student Lunch: For research students who wish to meet with the speaker over lunch please sign up here.

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Thank you, Pauline

 

 

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Pauline Patel

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