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Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) furnish large language models (LLMs) with iterative retrievals of relevant information to handle complex multi-hop questions. These methods typically alternate between LLM reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rui Li , Quanyu Dai , Zeyu Zhang , Xu Chen , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Generative commonsense question answering (GenCQA) is a task of automatically generating a list of answers given a question. The answer list is required to cover all reasonable answers. This presents the considerable challenges of producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhifeng Li , Bowei Zou , Yifan Fan , Yu Hong

Existing approaches for open-domain question answering (QA) are typically designed for questions that require either single-hop or multi-hop reasoning, which make strong assumptions of the complexity of questions to be answered. Also,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ping Nie , Yuyu Zhang , Arun Ramamurthy , Le Song

Commonsense reasoning aims to empower machines with the human ability to make presumptions about ordinary situations in our daily life. In this paper, we propose a textual inference framework for answering commonsense questions, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Bill Yuchen Lin , Xinyue Chen , Jamin Chen , Xiang Ren

Multimodal multihop question answering (MMQA) requires reasoning over images and text from multiple sources. Despite advances in visual question answering, this multihop setting remains underexplored due to a lack of quality datasets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Spandana Gella , Giuseppe Carenini , Issam H. Laradji

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers an effective approach for addressing question answering (QA) tasks. However, the imperfections of the retrievers in RAG models often result in the retrieval of irrelevant information, which could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinyuan Fang , Zaiqiao Meng , Craig Macdonald

Language-enabled AI systems can answer complex, multi-hop questions to high accuracy, but supporting answers with evidence is a more challenging task which is important for the transparency and trustworthiness to users. Prior work in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shane Storks , Qiaozi Gao , Aishwarya Reganti , Govind Thattai

How to select relevant key objects and reason about the complex relationships cross vision and linguistic domain are two key issues in many multi-modality applications such as visual question answering (VQA). In this work, we incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zongzhao Li , Xiangyu Zhu , Xi Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei

Multi-hop Question Answering (MHQA) adds layers of complexity to question answering, making it more challenging. When Language Models (LMs) are prompted with multiple search results, they are tasked not only with retrieving relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wenyu Huang , Pavlos Vougiouklis , Mirella Lapata , Jeff Z. Pan

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge base which is several hops from the topic entity mentioned in the question. Existing Retrieval-based approaches first generate instructions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

Multi-hop question answering is a challenging task for both large language models (LLMs) and humans, as it requires recognizing when multi-hop reasoning is needed, followed by reading comprehension, logical reasoning, and knowledge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jinyan Su , Claire Cardie , Jennifer Healey

Multi-hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions that require synthesizing multiple information snippets from documents to derive target answers. The primary challenge lies in effectively pinpointing crucial information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Maodong Li , Longyin Zhang , Fang Kong

Multi-hop Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) requires coherent reasoning across relational paths, yet existing methods often treat each reasoning step independently and fail to effectively leverage experience from prior explorations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yingxu Wang , Jiaxin Huang , Mengzhu Wang , Nan Yin

While commonsense knowledge acquisition and reasoning has traditionally been a core research topic in the knowledge representation and reasoning community, recent years have seen a surge of interest in the natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Prajjwal Bhargava , Vincent Ng

Contextual commonsense inference is the task of generating various types of explanations around the events in a dyadic dialogue, including cause, motivation, emotional reaction, and others. Producing a coherent and non-trivial explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Siqi Shen , Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Henry Lim , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Reading comprehension (RC)---in contrast to information retrieval---requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Tomáš Kočiský , Jonathan Schwarz , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer , Karl Moritz Hermann , Gábor Melis , Edward Grefenstette

Detecting what emotions are expressed in text is a well-studied problem in natural language processing. However, research on finer grained emotion analysis such as what causes an emotion is still in its infancy. We present solutions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Elsbeth Turcan , Shuai Wang , Rishita Anubhai , Kasturi Bhattacharjee , Yaser Al-Onaizan , Smaranda Muresan

Transformers have become the gold standard for many natural language processing tasks and, in particular, for multi-hop question answering (MHQA). This task includes processing a long document and reasoning over the multiple parts of it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Alsu Sagirova , Mikhail Burtsev

This paper presents a novel framework for reconstructing multi-hop explanations in science Question Answering (QA). While existing approaches for multi-hop reasoning build explanations considering each question in isolation, we propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Marco Valentino , Mokanarangan Thayaparan , André Freitas

How can we generate concise explanations for multi-hop Reading Comprehension (RC)? The current strategies of identifying supporting sentences can be seen as an extractive question-focused summarization of the input text. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Naoya Inoue , Harsh Trivedi , Steven Sinha , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kentaro Inui