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We present a question answering system over DBpedia, filling the gap between user information needs expressed in natural language and a structured query interface expressed in SPARQL over the underlying knowledge base (KB). Given the KB,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Chenhao Zhu , Kan Ren , Xuan Liu , Haofen Wang , Yiding Tian , Yong Yu

We present a generative model to map natural language questions into SQL queries. Existing neural network based approaches typically generate a SQL query word-by-word, however, a large portion of the generated results are incorrect or not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jianshu Ji , Guihong Cao , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Ming Zhou

Thanks to the development of the Semantic Web, a lot of new structured data has become available on the Web in the form of knowledge bases (KBs). Making this valuable data accessible and usable for end-users is one of the main goals of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dennis Diefenbach , Andreas Both , Kamal Singh , Pierre Maret

The Scholarly Hybrid Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2024 focuses on Question Answering (QA) over diverse scholarly sources: DBLP, SemOpenAlex, and Wikipedia-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fomubad Borista Fondi , Azanzi Jiomekong Fidel , Gaoussou Camara

Many successful approaches to semantic parsing build on top of the syntactic analysis of text, and make use of distributional representations or statistical models to match parses to ontology-specific queries. This paper presents a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Edward Grefenstette , Phil Blunsom , Nando de Freitas , Karl Moritz Hermann

Knowledge Base, represents facts about the world, often in some form of subsumption ontology, rather than implicitly, embedded in procedural code, the way a conventional computer program does. While there is a rapid growth in knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sai Sharath Japa , Rekabdar Banafsheh

Recent works on representation learning for Knowledge Graphs have moved beyond the problem of link prediction, to answering queries of an arbitrary structure. Existing methods are based on ad-hoc mechanisms that require training with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Daniel Daza , Michael Cochez

Learning to generate fluent natural language from structured data with neural networks has become an common approach for NLG. This problem can be challenging when the form of the structured data varies between examples. This paper presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Gehrmann , Falcon Z. Dai , Henry Elder , Alexander M. Rush

Building computers able to answer questions on any subject is a long standing goal of artificial intelligence. Promising progress has recently been achieved by methods that learn to map questions to logical forms or database queries. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Antoine Bordes , Jason Weston , Nicolas Usunier

This paper presents an open source methodology for allowing users to query structured non textual datasets through natural language Unlike Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG which struggles with numerical and highly structured information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hontan Valentin-Micu , Bunea Andrei-Alexandru , Tantaroudas Nikolaos Dimitrios , Popovici Dan-Matei

Semantic parsing methods for converting text to SQL queries enable question answering over structured data and can greatly benefit analysts who routinely perform complex analytics on vast data stored in specialized relational databases.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mounica Maddela , Lingjue Xie , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Mausam

This paper proposes a novel architecture to generate multi-hop answers to open domain questions that require information from texts and tables, using the Open Table-and-Text Question Answering dataset for validation and training. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Marcos M. José , Flávio N. Cação , Maria F. Ribeiro , Rafael M. Cheang , Paulo Pirozelli , Fabio G. Cozman

Can language models (LM) ground question-answering (QA) tasks in the knowledge base via inherent relational reasoning ability? While previous models that use only LMs have seen some success on many QA tasks, more recent methods include…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yujie Lu , Siqi Ouyang , Kairui Zhou

The current de-facto way to query the Web of Data is through the SPARQL protocol, where a client sends queries to a server through a SPARQL endpoint. Contrary to an HTTP server, providing and maintaining a robust and reliable endpoint…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pavlos Fafalios , Yannis Tzitzikas

Existing question answering methods infer answers either from a knowledge base or from raw text. While knowledge base (KB) methods are good at answering compositional questions, their performance is often affected by the incompleteness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Siva Reddy , Andrew McCallum

In this work, our aim is to provide a structured answer in natural language to a complex information need. Particularly, we envision using generative models from the perspective of data-to-text generation. We propose the use of a content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hanane Djeddal , Thomas Gerald , Laure Soulier , Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat , Lynda Tamine

Recently, it has been shown that the incorporation of structured knowledge into Large Language Models significantly improves the results for a variety of NLP tasks. In this paper, we propose a method for exploring pre-trained Text-to-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Mikhail Salnikov , Hai Le , Prateek Rajput , Irina Nikishina , Pavel Braslavski , Valentin Malykh , Alexander Panchenko

We propose a new end-to-end question answering model, which learns to aggregate answer evidence from an incomplete knowledge base (KB) and a set of retrieved text snippets. Under the assumptions that the structured KB is easier to query and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang

Table question answering is a popular task that assesses a model's ability to understand and interact with structured data. However, the given table often does not contain sufficient information for answering the question, necessitating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yujian Liu , Jiabao Ji , Tong Yu , Ryan Rossi , Sungchul Kim , Handong Zhao , Ritwik Sinha , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Open domain Question Answering (QA) systems must interact with external knowledge sources, such as web pages, to find relevant information. Information sources like Wikipedia, however, are not well structured and difficult to utilize in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yusuke Watanabe , Bhuwan Dhingra , Ruslan Salakhutdinov