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Properly modelling dynamic information that changes over time still is an open issue. Most modern knowledge bases are unable to represent relationships that are valid only during a given time interval. In this work, we revisit a previous…

Large language models excel in question-answering (QA) yet still struggle with multi-hop reasoning and temporal questions. Query-based knowledge graph QA (KGQA) offers a modular alternative by generating executable queries instead of direct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Artem Alekseev , Mikhail Chaichuk , Miron Butko , Alexander Panchenko , Elena Tutubalina , Oleg Somov

Large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) like Freebase and Wikidata house millions of structured knowledge. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) provides a user-friendly way to access these valuable KBs via asking natural language questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lingxi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yanling Wang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Semi-structured data, such as Infobox tables, often include temporal information about entities, either implicitly or explicitly. Can current NLP systems reason about such information in semi-structured tables? To tackle this question, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Vivek Gupta , Pranshu Kandoi , Mahek Bhavesh Vora , Shuo Zhang , Yujie He , Ridho Reinanda , Vivek Srikumar

Ontology-based query answering (OBQA) augments classical query answering in databases by domain knowledge encoded in an ontology. Systems for OBQA use the ontological knowledge to infer new information that is not explicitly given in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Stefan Borgwardt , Veronika Thost

Question answering over temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) is crucial for understanding evolving facts and relationships, yet its development is hindered by limited datasets and difficulties in generating custom QA pairs. We propose a novel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Qiang Sun , Sirui Li , Du Huynh , Mark Reynolds , Wei Liu

Question answering (QA) has become a popular way for humans to access billion-scale knowledge bases. Unlike web search, QA over a knowledge base gives out accurate and concise results, provided that natural language questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Wanyun Cui , Yanghua Xiao , Haixun Wang , Yangqiu Song , Seung-won Hwang , Wei Wang

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

Answering temporal CQs over temporalized Description Logic knowledge bases (TKB) is a main technique to realize ontology-based situation recognition. In case the collected data in such a knowledge base is inaccurate, important query answers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Oliver Fernandez-Gil , Fabio Patrizi , Giuseppe Perelli , Anni-Yasmin Turhan

Almost all statements in knowledge bases have a temporal scope during which they are valid. Hence, knowledge base completion (KBC) on temporal knowledge bases (TKB), where each statement \textit{may} be associated with a temporal scope, has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Ling Cai , Krzysztof Janowic , Bo Yan , Rui Zhu , Gengchen Mai

Detecting and answering ambiguous questions has been a challenging task in open-domain question answering. Ambiguous questions have different answers depending on their interpretation and can take diverse forms. Temporally ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bhawna Piryani , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Jamshid Mozafari , Adam Jatowt

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs) on the web, how to take full advantage of them becomes increasingly important. Knowledge base-based question answering (KB-QA) is one of the most promising approaches to access the substantial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Yuanzhe Zhang , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Guoliang Ji , Zhanyi Liu , Hua Wu , Jun Zhao

The temporal aspect is a significant dimension of our reality. We notice the challenge that large language models (LLMs) face when engaging in temporal reasoning. Our preliminary experiments show that methods involving the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xingxuan Li , Liying Cheng , Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Shafiq Joty , Lidong Bing

Despite advancements in state-of-the-art models and information retrieval techniques, current systems still struggle to handle temporal information and to correctly answer detailed questions about past events. In this paper, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Mehmet Kardan , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Knowledge-based Vision Question Answering (KB-VQA) extends general Vision Question Answering (VQA) by not only requiring the understanding of visual and textual inputs but also extensive range of knowledge, enabling significant advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jiaqi Deng , Zonghan Wu , Huan Huo , Guandong Xu

When answering natural language questions over knowledge bases, missing facts, incomplete schema and limited scope naturally lead to many questions being unanswerable. While answerability has been explored in other QA settings, it has not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mayur Patidar , Prayushi Faldu , Avinash Singh , Lovekesh Vig , Indrajit Bhattacharya , Mausam

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Recently, a large number of studies focus on semantically or syntactically complicated questions. In this paper, we elaborately summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yunshi Lan , Gaole He , Jinhao Jiang , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) tasks that in-volve complex reasoning are emerging as an important re-search direction. However, most KBQA systems struggle withgeneralizability, particularly on two dimensions: (a) acrossmultiple…

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions using structured knowledge from KBs. While LLM-only approaches offer generalization, they suffer from outdated knowledge, hallucinations, and lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Akiko Aizawa , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Temporal logical understanding, a core facet of human cognition, plays a pivotal role in capturing complex sequential events and their temporal relationships within videos. This capability is particularly crucial in tasks like Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sirnam Swetha , Hilde Kuehne , Mubarak Shah