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Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions with a large-scale structured knowledge base (KB). Despite advancements with large language models (LLMs), KBQA still faces challenges in weak KB awareness,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haoran Luo , Haihong E , Yikai Guo , Qika Lin , Xiaobao Wu , Xinyu Mu , Wenhao Liu , Meina Song , Yifan Zhu , Luu Anh Tuan

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Question generation from a knowledge base (KB) is the task of generating questions related to the domain of the input KB. We propose a system for generating fluent and natural questions from a KB, which significantly reduces the human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Linfeng Song , Lin Zhao

Commonsense and background knowledge is required for a QA model to answer many nontrivial questions. Different from existing work on knowledge-aware QA, we focus on a more challenging task of leveraging external knowledge to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Bin Bi , Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Jiangnan Xia , Chenliang Li

We present a new perspective on neural knowledge base (KB) embeddings, from which we build a framework that can model symbolic knowledge in the KB together with its learning process. We show that this framework well regularizes previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiaxin Shi , Jun Zhu

We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Marcus Rohrbach , Mario Fritz

We address the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA), which requires joint image and language understanding to answer a question about a given photograph. Recent approaches have applied deep image captioning methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Huijuan Xu , Kate Saenko

We present the Open Predicate Query Language (OPQL); a method for constructing a virtual KB (VKB) trained entirely from text. Large Knowledge Bases (KBs) are indispensable for a wide-range of industry applications such as question answering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Haitian Sun , Pat Verga , Bhuwan Dhingra , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

In this paper, we propose a method for incorporating world knowledge (linked entities and fine-grained entity types) into a neural question generation model. This world knowledge helps to encode additional information related to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Deepak Gupta , Kaheer Suleman , Mahmoud Adada , Andrew McNamara , Justin Harris

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires integration of feature maps with drastically different structures and focus of the correct regions. Image descriptors have structures at multiple spatial scales, while lexical inputs inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Yang Shi , Tommaso Furlanello , Sheng Zha , Animashree Anandkumar

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), because of its emergent abilities, has empowered various fields, one typical of which is large language models (LLMs). One of the typical application fields of Generative AI is large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yan Zhao , Zhongyun Li , Yushan Pan , Jiaxing Wang , Yihong Wang

We compare two distinct approaches for querying data in the context of the life sciences. The first approach utilizes conventional databases to store the data and intuitive form-based interfaces to facilitate easy querying of the data.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Amir H. Asiaee , Prashant Doshi , Todd Minning , Satya Sahoo , Priti Parikh , Amit Sheth , Rick L. Tarleton

Knowledge-based Vision Question Answering (KB-VQA) systems address complex visual-grounded questions with knowledge retrieved from external knowledge bases. The tasks of knowledge retrieval and answer generation tasks both necessitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiaqi Deng , Kaize Shi , Zonghan Wu , Huan Huo , Dingxian Wang , Guandong Xu

In order to facilitate natural language understanding, the key is to engage commonsense or background knowledge. However, how to engage commonsense effectively in question answering systems is still under exploration in both research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qianglong Chen , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen , Yin Zhang

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBs) aims to answer natural language questions with factual information such as entities and relations in KBs. Previous methods either generate logical forms that can be executed over KBs to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Donghan Yu , Sheng Zhang , Patrick Ng , Henghui Zhu , Alexander Hanbo Li , Jun Wang , Yiqun Hu , William Wang , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

In artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge is the information required by an intelligent system to accomplish tasks. While traditional knowledge bases use discrete, symbolic representations, detecting knowledge encoded in the continuous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Gang Chen , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA) has evolved from simple single-fact questions to complex questions that require graph traversal and aggregation. We propose a novel approach for complex KGQA that uses unsupervised message…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Javier David Fernandez Garcia , Axel Polleres , Maarten de Rijke , Michael Cochez

Knowledge Bases (KBs) provide structured representation of the real-world in the form of extensive collections of facts about real-world entities, their properties and relationships. They are ubiquitous in large-scale intelligent systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Suhas Shrinivasan , Simon Razniewski

Tables extracted from web documents can be used to directly answer many web search queries. Previous works on question answering (QA) using web tables have focused on factoid queries, i.e., those answerable with a short string like person…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kaushik Chakrabarti , Zhimin Chen , Siamak Shakeri , Guihong Cao

We study open-domain question answering with structured, unstructured and semi-structured knowledge sources, including text, tables, lists and knowledge bases. Departing from prior work, we propose a unifying approach that homogenizes all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Barlas Oguz , Xilun Chen , Vladimir Karpukhin , Stan Peshterliev , Dmytro Okhonko , Michael Schlichtkrull , Sonal Gupta , Yashar Mehdad , Scott Yih