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Understanding the meaning of a text is a fundamental challenge of natural language understanding (NLU) and from its early days, it has received significant attention through question answering (QA) tasks. We introduce a general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kinjal Basu , Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

Open-domain conversational question answering can be viewed as two tasks: passage retrieval and conversational question answering, where the former relies on selecting candidate passages from a large corpus and the latter requires better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hung-Chieh Fang , Kuo-Han Hung , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

Answering questions related to the legal domain is a complex task, primarily due to the intricate nature and diverse range of legal document systems. Providing an accurate answer to a legal query typically necessitates specialized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Data plays a vital role in machine learning studies. In the research of recommendation, both user behaviors and side information are helpful to model users. So, large-scale real scenario datasets with abundant user behaviors will contribute…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Bin Hao , Min Zhang , Weizhi Ma , Shaoyun Shi , Xinxing Yu , Houzhi Shan , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma

Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) retrieval is an important task where the objective is to retrieve an appropriate Question-Answer (QA) pair from a database based on a user's query. We propose a FAQ retrieval system that considers the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Wataru Sakata , Tomohide Shibata , Ribeka Tanaka , Sadao Kurohashi

We address the task of sentence retrieval for open-ended dialogues. The goal is to retrieve sentences from a document corpus that contain information useful for generating the next turn in a given dialogue. Prior work on dialogue-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Itay Harel , Hagai Taitelbaum , Idan Szpektor , Oren Kurland

Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical questions are still a challenge to most QA approaches, due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andre Lamurias , Diana Sousa , Francisco M. Couto

Answering complex questions is a time-consuming activity for humans that requires reasoning and integration of information. Recent work on reading comprehension made headway in answering simple questions, but tackling complex questions is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Berant

We introduce CS1QA, a dataset for code-based question answering in the programming education domain. CS1QA consists of 9,237 question-answer pairs gathered from chat logs in an introductory programming class using Python, and 17,698…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Changyoon Lee , Yeon Seonwoo , Alice Oh

We introduce the Curious About Uncertain Scene (CAUS) dataset, designed to enable Large Language Models, specifically GPT-4, to emulate human cognitive processes for resolving uncertainties. Leveraging this dataset, we investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Minjung Shin , Donghyun Kim , Jeh-Kwang Ryu

Question Answering (QA) datasets are crucial in assessing reading comprehension skills for both machines and humans. While numerous datasets have been developed in English for this purpose, a noticeable void exists in less-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Tomás Freitas Osório , Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Identifying suitable datasets for a research question remains challenging because existing dataset search engines rely heavily on metadata quality and keyword overlap, which often fail to capture the semantic intent of scientific…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiyin Tan , Changxu Duan

This paper explores the task Natural Language Understanding (NLU) by looking at duplicate question detection in the Quora dataset. We conducted extensive exploration of the dataset and used various machine learning models, including linear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Lakshay Sharma , Laura Graesser , Nikita Nangia , Utku Evci

Reading long documents to answer open-domain questions remains challenging in natural language understanding. In this paper, we introduce a new model, called RikiNet, which reads Wikipedia pages for natural question answering. RikiNet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Dayiheng Liu , Yeyun Gong , Jie Fu , Yu Yan , Jiusheng Chen , Daxin Jiang , Jiancheng Lv , Nan Duan

We introduce the novel task of answering entity-seeking recommendation questions using a collection of reviews that describe candidate answer entities. We harvest a QA dataset that contains 47,124 paragraph-sized real user questions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Danish Contractor , Krunal Shah , Aditi Partap , Mausam , Parag Singla

Exploring large-scale text corpora presents a significant challenge in biomedical, finance, and legal domains, where vast amounts of documents are continuously published. Traditional search methods, such as keyword-based search, often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ashish Chouhan , Saifeldin Mandour , Michael Gertz

While there has been substantial progress in text comprehension through simple factoid question answering, more holistic comprehension of a discourse still presents a major challenge (Dunietz et al., 2020). Someone critically reflecting on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wei-Jen Ko , Cutter Dalton , Mark Simmons , Eliza Fisher , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

A large majority of American adults get at least some of their news from the Internet. Even though many online news products have the goal of informing their users about the news, they lack scalable and reliable tools for measuring how well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Adam D. Lelkes , Vinh Q. Tran , Cong Yu

Question Answering System (QAS) is used for information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP) to reduce human effort. There are numerous QAS based on the user documents present today, but they all are limited to providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Ahlam Ansari , Moonish Maknojia , Altamash Shaikh