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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

The goal of Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGQA) is to find answers for natural language questions over a knowledge graph. Recent KGQA approaches adopt a neural machine translation (NMT) approach, where the natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Daniel Diomedi , Aidan Hogan

Answering complex questions about textual narratives requires reasoning over both stated context and the world knowledge that underlies it. However, pretrained language models (LM), the foundation of most modern QA systems, do not robustly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xikun Zhang , Antoine Bosselut , Michihiro Yasunaga , Hongyu Ren , Percy Liang , Christopher D. Manning , Jure Leskovec

Automatic discourse processing is bottlenecked by data: current discourse formalisms pose highly demanding annotation tasks involving large taxonomies of discourse relations, making them inaccessible to lay annotators. This work instead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Wei-Jen Ko , Yating Wu , Cutter Dalton , Dananjay Srinivas , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

We propose GHR-VQA, Graph-guided Hierarchical Relational Reasoning for Video Question Answering (Video QA), a novel human-centric framework that incorporates scene graphs to capture intricate human-object interactions within video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Dionysia Danai Brilli , Dimitrios Mallis , Vassilis Pitsikalis , Petros Maragos

Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) involves answering natural language questions by leveraging structured information stored in a knowledge graph. Typically, KGQA initially retrieve a targeted subgraph from a large-scale knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yu Zhang , Kehai Chen , Xuefeng Bai , zhao kang , Quanjiang Guo , Min Zhang

Semantic parsing, as an important approach to question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA), transforms a question into the complete query graph for further generating the correct logical query. Existing semantic parsing approaches mainly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Peiyun Wu , Yunjie Wu , Linjuan Wu , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

In recent years, transformer-based language models have achieved state of the art performance in various NLP benchmarks. These models are able to extract mostly distributional information with some semantics from unstructured text, however…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Pedro Colon-Hernandez , Catherine Havasi , Jason Alonso , Matthew Huggins , Cynthia Breazeal

Conversational question answering (ConvQA) is a convenient means of searching over RDF knowledge graphs (KGs), where a prevalent approach is to translate natural language questions to SPARQL queries. However, SPARQL has certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rishiraj Saha Roy , Chris Hinze , Joel Schlotthauer , Farzad Naderi , Viktor Hangya , Andreas Foltyn , Luzian Hahn , Fabian Kuech

Charts are very popular to analyze data and convey important insights. People often analyze visualizations to answer open-ended questions that require explanatory answers. Answering such questions are often difficult and time-consuming as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shankar Kantharaj , Xuan Long Do , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Jia Qing Tan , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

The underlying structure of natural language is hierarchical; words combine into phrases, which in turn form clauses. An awareness of this hierarchical structure can aid machine learning models in performing many linguistic tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Ashok Thillaisundaram

Semantic parsing solves knowledge base (KB) question answering (KBQA) by composing a KB query, which generally involves node extraction (NE) and graph composition (GC) to detect and connect related nodes in a query. Despite the strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Minhao Zhang , Ruoyu Zhang , Yanzeng Li , Lei Zou

Answering simple questions over knowledge graphs is a well-studied problem in question answering. Previous approaches for this task built on recurrent and convolutional neural network based architectures that use pretrained word embeddings.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-03 D. Lukovnikov , A. Fischer , J. Lehmann

The paper presents our system developed for table question answering (TQA). TQA tasks face challenges due to the characteristics of real-world tabular data, such as large size, incomplete column semantics, and entity ambiguity. To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sishi Xiong , Dakai Wang , Yu Zhao , Jie Zhang , Changzai Pan , Haowei He , Xiangyu Li , Wenhan Chang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

Table Question Answering (Table QA) refers to providing precise answers from tables to answer a user's question. In recent years, there have been a lot of works on table QA, but there is a lack of comprehensive surveys on this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Nengzheng Jin , Joanna Siebert , Dongfang Li , Qingcai Chen

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a large amount of world's knowledge is stored in structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Alexander Hanbo Li , Patrick Ng , Peng Xu , Henghui Zhu , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

Neural methods for Complex Query Answering (CQA) over knowledge graphs (KGs) are widely believed to learn patterns that generalize beyond explicit graph structure, allowing them to infer answers that are unreachable through symbolic query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yannick Brunink , Daniel Daza , Yunjie He , Michael Cochez

Information needs are naturally represented as questions. Automatic Natural-Language Question Answering (NLQA) has only recently become a practical task on a larger scale and without domain constraints. This paper gives a brief introduction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jochen L. Leidner

In this paper, we describe a dataset and baseline result for a question answering that utilizes web tables. It contains commonly asked questions on the web and their corresponding answers found in tables on websites. Our dataset is novel in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Bhavya Karki , Fan Hu , Nithin Haridas , Suhail Barot , Zihua Liu , Lucile Callebert , Matthias Grabmair , Anthony Tomasic