FollowTable: A Benchmark for Instruction-Following Table Retrieval.

@inproceedings{jin-2026-followtable, author = {Rihui Jin and Justin Zobel and Zhaocheng Du and Victor Lavrenko and Yong Liu and Yuchen Lu and Guilin Qi and W. Bruce Croft and Ting Zhang and Jun Wang and Kuicai Dong and Justin Zobel and Zhaocheng Du and Dongping Liu and Gang Wang and Victor Lavrenko and Yong Liu and Guilin Qi and W. Bruce Croft}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{FollowTable: A Benchmark for Instruction-Following Table Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {668--678}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809658}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809658} }