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Large language models are emerging as scientific assistants, but evaluating their ability to reason from empirical data remains challenging. Benchmarks derived from published studies and human annotations inherit publication bias,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Oliver Bentham , Vivek Srikumar

Navigating efficiently to an object in an unexplored environment is a critical skill for general-purpose intelligent robots. Recent approaches to this object goal navigation problem have embraced a modular strategy, integrating classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kaixian Qu , Jie Tan , Tingnan Zhang , Fei Xia , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

In semantic parsing of geographical queries against real-world databases such as OpenStreetMap (OSM), unique correct answers do not necessarily exist. Instead, the truth might be lying in the eye of the user, who needs to enter an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Michael Staniek , Stefan Riezler

In this paper, we present WISE, an open-source audiovisual search engine which integrates a range of multimodal retrieval capabilities into a single, practical tool accessible to users without machine learning expertise. WISE supports…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Prasanna Sridhar , Horace Lee , David M. S. Pinto , Andrew Zisserman , Abhishek Dutta

We propose the Dual Engines of Thoughts (DEoT), an analytical framework for comprehensive open-ended reasoning. While traditional reasoning frameworks primarily focus on finding "the best answer" or "the correct answer" for single-answer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Fei-Hsuan Yu , Yun-Cheng Chou , Teng-Ruei Chen

A question answering (QA) system is a type of conversational AI that generates natural language answers to questions posed by human users. QA systems often form the backbone of interactive dialogue systems, and have been studied extensively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Aakash Bansal , Zachary Eberhart , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Search is one of the most common platforms used to seek information. However, users mostly get overloaded with results whenever they use such a platform to resolve their queries. Nowadays, direct answers to queries are being provided as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Ankush Chopra , Shruti Agrawal , Sohom Ghosh

This research aims to explore various methods for assessing user feedback in mixed-initiative conversational search (CS) systems. While CS systems enjoy profuse advancements across multiple aspects, recent research fails to successfully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Paul Owoicho , Ivan Sekulić , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Jeffrey Dalton , Fabio Crestani

We introduce a benchmark dataset for question answering and translation in bilingual Latin and English settings, containing about 7,800 question-answer pairs. The questions are drawn from Latin pedagogical sources, including exams,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Marisa Hudspeth , Patrick J. Burns , Brendan O'Connor

Reactive answer set programming has paved the way for incorporating online information into operative solving processes. Although this technology was originally devised for dealing with data streams in dynamic environments, like assisted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Martin Gebser , Philipp Obermeier , Torsten Schaub

In recent years, there have been amazing advances in deep learning methods for machine reading. In machine reading, the machine reader has to extract the answer from the given ground truth paragraph. Recently, the state-of-the-art machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Phu Mon Htut , Samuel R. Bowman , Kyunghyun Cho

Intent detection with semantically similar fine-grained intents is a challenging task. To address it, we reformulate intent detection as a question-answering retrieval task by treating utterances and intent names as questions and answers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Asaf Yehudai , Matan Vetzler , Yosi Mass , Koren Lazar , Doron Cohen , Boaz Carmeli

Human mind is the palace of curious questions that seek answers. Computational resolution of this challenge is possible through Natural Language Processing techniques. Statistical techniques like machine learning and deep learning require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Pragya Katyayan , Nisheeth Joshi

Commonsense question-answering (QA) tasks, in the form of benchmarks, are constantly being introduced for challenging and comparing commonsense QA systems. The benchmarks provide question sets that systems' developers can use to train and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Henrique Santos , Minor Gordon , Zhicheng Liang , Gretchen Forbush , Deborah L. McGuinness

Resource-management tasks in modern operating and distributed systems continue to rely primarily on hand-designed heuristics for tasks such as scheduling, caching, or active queue management. Designing performant heuristics is an expensive,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rohit Dwivedula , Divyanshu Saxena , Sujay Yadalam , Daehyeok Kim , Aditya Akella

There is an explosive growth of information in the World Wide Web thus posing a challenge to Web users to extract essential knowledge from the Web. Search engines help us to narrow down the search in the form of Search Engine Result Pages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Srikantaiah K C , Suraj M , Venugopal K R , L M Patnaik

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing tasks, yet their application in the legal domain remains challenging due to the specialized terminology, complex reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yiquan Wu , Yuhang Liu , Yifei Liu , Ang Li , Siying Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Non-extractive commonsense QA remains a challenging AI task, as it requires systems to reason about, synthesize, and gather disparate pieces of information, in order to generate responses to queries. Recent approaches on such tasks show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Kaixin Ma , Jonathan Francis , Quanyang Lu , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

In this paper, we present language model system submitted to SemEval-2020 Task 4 competition: "Commonsense Validation and Explanation". We participate in two subtasks for subtask A: validation and subtask B: Explanation. We implemented with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Pai Liu

The success of language models has inspired the NLP community to attend to tasks that require implicit and complex reasoning, relying on human-like commonsense mechanisms. While such vertical thinking tasks have been relatively popular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yifan Jiang , Filip Ilievski , Kaixin Ma , Zhivar Sourati