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Real-life tasks such as giving legal or technical advice often lack complete context at the outset and can have disparate answers depending thereon. The ability to derive missing factual information by asking clarifying questions (ACQ) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Matthew Toles , Yukun Huang , Zhou Yu , Luis Gravano

The goal of this work is to build conversational Question Answering (QA) interfaces for the large body of domain-specific information available in FAQ sites. We present DoQA, a dataset with 2,437 dialogues and 10,917 QA pairs. The dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jon Ander Campos , Arantxa Otegi , Aitor Soroa , Jan Deriu , Mark Cieliebak , Eneko Agirre

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Soumya Jahagirdar , Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. It has earned increasing attention with recent research trends in joint vision and language understanding. Yet, compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yaoyao Zhong , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Yicong Li , Weihong Deng , Tat-Seng Chua

General Question Answering (QA) systems over texts require the multi-hop reasoning capability, i.e. the ability to reason with information collected from multiple passages to derive the answer. In this paper we conduct a systematic analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Haoyu Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Rajarshi Das , Wenhan Xiong , Tian Gao

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has enabled us to seek answers to inherently debatable questions on LLM chatbots, necessitating a reliable way to evaluate their ability. However, traditional QA benchmarks assume fixed answers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Rongwu Xu , Xuan Qi , Zehan Qi , Wei Xu , Zhijiang Guo

The growing demand for corporate sustainability transparency, particularly under new regulations like the EU Taxonomy, necessitates precise data extraction from large, unstructured corporate reports, a task for which Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Mohammed Ali , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Adam Jatowt

Multi-Hop Question Answering (MHQA) is crucial for evaluating the model's capability to integrate information from diverse sources. However, creating extensive and high-quality MHQA datasets is challenging: (i) manual annotation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiyu Shen , Jiyuan Liu , Yunhe Pang , Yanghui Rao , Fu Lee Wang , Jianxing Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing information retrieval, with chatbots becoming an important source for answering user queries. As by their design, LLMs prioritize generating correct answers, the value of highly plausible yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jamshid Mozafari , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

We consider the task of answering complex multi-hop questions using a corpus as a virtual knowledge base (KB). In particular, we describe a neural module, DrKIT, that traverses textual data like a KB, softly following paths of relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Vidhisha Balachandran , Graham Neubig , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

Effective multi-hop question answering (QA) requires reasoning over multiple scattered paragraphs and providing explanations for answers. Most existing approaches cannot provide an interpretable reasoning process to illustrate how these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zhenyun Deng , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Michael Witbrock , Patricia Riddle

Automatic multi-hop fact verification task has gained significant attention in recent years. Despite impressive results, these well-designed models perform poorly on out-of-domain data. One possible solution is to augment the training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yingjie Zhu , Jiasheng Si , Yibo Zhao , Haiyang Zhu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

We propose a novel open-domain question answering (ODQA) framework for answering single/multi-hop questions across heterogeneous knowledge sources. The key novelty of our method is the introduction of the intermediary modules into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Kaixin Ma , Hao Cheng , Xiaodong Liu , Eric Nyberg , Jianfeng Gao

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge graph (KG), which requires multiple steps of reasoning. Existing retrieval-based approaches solve this task by concentrating on the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Li , Chen Zhang , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

With the development of deep learning techniques and large scale datasets, the question answering (QA) systems have been quickly improved, providing more accurate and satisfying answers. However, current QA systems either focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bingning Wang , Ting Yao , Weipeng Chen , Jingfang Xu , Xiaochuan Wang

We introduce the MovieQA dataset which aims to evaluate automatic story comprehension from both video and text. The dataset consists of 14,944 questions about 408 movies with high semantic diversity. The questions range from simpler "Who"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Makarand Tapaswi , Yukun Zhu , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Antonio Torralba , Raquel Urtasun , Sanja Fidler

This paper introduces QAConv, a new question answering (QA) dataset that uses conversations as a knowledge source. We focus on informative conversations, including business emails, panel discussions, and work channels. Unlike open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Wenhao Liu , Pascale Fung , Caiming Xiong

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in building question answering (QA) models that reason across multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, QA using images is often limited to just picking the answer from a…

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

With social media becoming increasingly pop-ular on which lots of news and real-time eventsare reported, developing automated questionanswering systems is critical to the effective-ness of many applications that rely on real-time knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Wenhan Xiong , Jiawei Wu , Hong Wang , Vivek Kulkarni , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang