Tab-Cleaner: Weakly Supervised Tabular Data Cleaning via Pre-training for E-commerce Catalog
Tab-Cleaner: Weakly Supervised Tabular Data Cleaning via Pre-training for E-commerce Catalog
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10.18653/v1/2023.acl-industry.18
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2023
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Kewei Cheng;Xian Li;Zhengyang Wang;Chenwei Zhang;Binxuan Huang;Y. Xu;X. Dong;Yizhou Sun
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Kewei Cheng;Xian Li;Zhengyang Wang;Chenwei Zhang;Binxuan Huang;Y. Xu;X. Dong;Yizhou Sun
Product catalogs, conceptually in the form of text-rich tables, are self-reported by individual retailers and thus inevitably contain noisy facts. Verifying such textual attributes in product catalogs is essential to improve their reliability. However, popular methods for processing free-text content, such as pre-trained language models, are not particularly effective on structured tabular data since they are typically trained on free-form natural language texts. In this paper, we present Tab-Cleaner, a model designed to handle error detection over text-rich tabular data following a pre-training / fine-tuning paradigm. We train Tab-Cleaner on a real-world Amazon Product Catalog table w.r.t millions of products and show improvements over state-of-the-art methods by 16\% on PR AUC over attribute applicability classification task and by 11\% on PR AUC over attribute value validation task.