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State-of-the-art question answering (QA) models exhibit a variety of social biases (e.g., with respect to sex or race), generally explained by similar issues in their training data. However, what has been overlooked so far is that in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Sagi Shaier , Kevin Bennett , Lawrence Hunter , Katharina von der Wense

The field of Question Answering (QA) has made remarkable progress in recent years, thanks to the advent of large pre-trained language models, newer realistic benchmark datasets with leaderboards, and novel algorithms for key components such…

In clinical practice, physicians refrain from making decisions when patient information is insufficient. This behavior, known as abstention, is a critical safety mechanism preventing potentially harmful misdiagnoses. Recent investigations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xilin Dang , Kexin Chen , Xiaorui Su , Ayush Noori , Iñaki Arango , Lucas Vittor , Xinyi Long , Yuyang Du , Marinka Zitnik , Pheng Ann Heng

Real-world Table-Text question answering (QA) tasks require models that can reason across long text and source tables, traversing multiple hops and executing complex operations such as aggregation. Yet existing benchmarks are small,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Sungho Park , Jueun Kim , Wook-Shin Han

The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the world and researchers are struggling to effectively combat it. One reason why the fight is difficult is due to the lack of information and knowledge. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jinhyuk Lee , Sean S. Yi , Minbyul Jeong , Mujeen Sung , Wonjin Yoon , Yonghwa Choi , Miyoung Ko , Jaewoo Kang

Medical Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is a combination of medical artificial intelligence and popular VQA challenges. Given a medical image and a clinically relevant question in natural language, the medical VQA system is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhihong Lin , Donghao Zhang , Qingyi Tao , Danli Shi , Gholamreza Haffari , Qi Wu , Mingguang He , Zongyuan Ge

Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Kushal Kafle , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Christopher Kanan

Diet plays a critical role in human health, yet tailoring dietary reasoning to individual health conditions remains a major challenge. Nutrition Question Answering (QA) has emerged as a popular method for addressing this problem. However,…

In this work, we formulate the NER task as a multi-answer knowledge guided QA task (KGQA) which helps to predict entities only by assigning B, I and O tags without associating entity types with the tags. We provide different knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Murthy Devarakonda , Chitta Baral

We introduce OpenLifelogQA, a large-scale open-ended lifelog QA dataset constructed from 18 months of multimodal lifelog data. Lifelogging is the passive collection and analysis of personal daily activities using wearable devices, producing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Quang-Linh Tran , Hoang-Bao Le , Tuong-Nghiem Diep , Binh Nguyen , Gareth J. F. Jones , Cathal Gurrin

We explore the suitability of unsupervised representation learning methods on biomedical text -- BioBERT, SciBERT, and BioSentVec -- for biomedical question answering. To further improve unsupervised representations for biomedical QA, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vaishnavi Kommaraju , Karthick Gunasekaran , Kun Li , Trapit Bansal , Andrew McCallum , Ivana Williams , Ana-Maria Istrate

Current studies in extractive question answering (EQA) have modeled the single-span extraction setting, where a single answer span is a label to predict for a given question-passage pair. This setting is natural for general domain EQA as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Wonjin Yoon , Richard Jackson , Aron Lagerberg , Jaewoo Kang

Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

Clinical Question Answering (CQA) plays a crucial role in medical decision-making, enabling physicians to extract relevant information from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). While transformer-based models such as BERT, BioBERT, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Amit Agarwal , Bhargava Kumar , Srikant Panda , Tejaswini Kumar

Medical multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is particularly difficult. Questions may describe patient symptoms and ask for the correct diagnosis, which requires domain knowledge and complex reasoning. Standard language modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Damien Sileo , Kanimozhi Uma , Marie-Francine Moens

Semantic Question Answering (QA) is a crucial technology to facilitate intuitive user access to semantic information stored in knowledge graphs. Whereas most of the existing QA systems and datasets focus on entity-centric questions, very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Tarcísio Souza Costa , Simon Gottschalk , Elena Demidova

Large language models are playing an increasingly significant role in molecular research, yet existing models often generate erroneous information, posing challenges to accurate molecular comprehension. Traditional evaluation metrics for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Xingyu Lu , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Shengyuan Bai , Leqing Chen , Yuan Yao , Hai-Tao Zheng , Yu Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cornerstone of modern question answering (QA) systems, enabling grounded answers based on external knowledge. Although recent progress has been driven by open-domain datasets, enterprise QA systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Dvir Cohen , Lin Burg , Sviatoslav Pykhnivskyi , Hagit Gur , Stanislav Kovynov , Olga Atzmon , Gilad Barkan

Scientific question answering (SQA) is an important task aimed at answering questions based on papers. However, current SQA datasets have limited reasoning types and neglect the relevance between tables and text, creating a significant gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xuanliang Zhang , Dingzirui Wang , Baoxin Wang , Longxu Dou , Xinyuan Lu , Keyan Xu , Dayong Wu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Though patients are increasingly granted digital access to their electronic health records (EHRs), existing interfaces may not support precise, trustworthy answers to patient-specific questions. Large language models (LLM) show promise in…

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