SemEval-2021 Task 9: Fact Verification and Evidence Finding for Tabular Data in Scientific Documents (SEM-TAB-FACTS)
Understanding tables is an important and relevant task that involves\nunderstanding table structure as well as being able to compare and contrast\ninformation within cells. In this paper, we address this challenge by\npresenting a new dataset and tasks that addresses this goal in a shared task in\nSemEval 2020 Task 9: Fact Verification and Evidence Finding for Tabular Data in\nScientific Documents (SEM-TAB-FACTS). Our dataset contains 981\nmanually-generated tables and an auto-generated dataset of 1980 tables\nproviding over 180K statement and over 16M evidence annotations. SEM-TAB-FACTS\nfeatured two sub-tasks. In sub-task A, the goal was to determine if a statement\nis supported, refuted or unknown in relation to a table. In sub-task B, the\nfocus was on identifying the specific cells of a table that provide evidence\nfor the statement. 69 teams signed up to participate in the task with 19\nsuccessful submissions to subtask A and 12 successful submissions to subtask B.\nWe present our results and main findings from the competition.\n