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This paper addresses the task of (complex) conversational question answering over a knowledge graph. For this task, we propose LASAGNE (muLti-task semAntic parSing with trAnsformer and Graph atteNtion nEtworks). It is the first approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Endri Kacupaj , Joan Plepi , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Jens Lehmann , Maria Maleshkova

Recently, knowledge graph (KG) augmented models have achieved noteworthy success on various commonsense reasoning tasks. However, KG edge (fact) sparsity and noisy edge extraction/generation often hinder models from obtaining useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Jun Yan , Mrigank Raman , Aaron Chan , Tianyu Zhang , Ryan Rossi , Handong Zhao , Sungchul Kim , Nedim Lipka , Xiang Ren

Resolving knowledge conflicts is a crucial challenge in Question Answering (QA) tasks, as the internet contains numerous conflicting facts and opinions. While some research has made progress in tackling ambiguous settings where multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sagi Shaier , Ari Kobren , Philip Ogren

Uncertainty quantification in Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) methods is crucial for ensuring the reliability of downstream applications. A recent work applies conformal prediction to KGE methods, providing uncertainty estimates by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yuqicheng Zhu , Daniel Hernández , Yuan He , Zifeng Ding , Bo Xiong , Evgeny Kharlamov , Steffen Staab

Despite the advances in large language models (LLMs), how they use their knowledge for reasoning is not yet well understood. In this study, we propose a method that deconstructs complex real-world questions into a graph, representing each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Miyoung Ko , Sue Hyun Park , Joonsuk Park , Minjoon Seo

We propose DocVXQA, a novel framework for visually self-explainable document question answering. The framework is designed not only to produce accurate answers to questions but also to learn visual heatmaps that highlight contextually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Changkyu Choi , Andrey Barsky , Kangsoo Jung , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) involves retrieving entities as answers from a Knowledge Graph (KG) using natural language queries. The challenge is to learn to reason over question-relevant KG facts that traverse KG entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Costas Mavromatis , George Karypis

Conversational search aims to satisfy users' complex information needs via multiple-turn interactions. The key challenge lies in revealing real users' search intent from the context-dependent queries. Previous studies achieve conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fengran Mo , Jinghan Zhang , Yuchen Hui , Jia Ao Sun , Zhichao Xu , Zhan Su , Jian-Yun Nie

While multi-modal models have successfully integrated information from image, video, and audio modalities, integrating graph modality into large language models (LLMs) remains unexplored. This discrepancy largely stems from the inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yuanchun Shen , Ruotong Liao , Zhen Han , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Knowledge graphs often suffer from incompleteness issues, which can be alleviated through information completion. However, current state-of-the-art deep knowledge convolutional embedding models rely on external convolution kernels and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Wenbin Guo , Zhao Li , Xin Wang , Zirui Chen , Jun Zhao , Jianxin Li , Ye Yuan

Existing question answering datasets focus on dealing with homogeneous information, based either only on text or KB/Table information alone. However, as human knowledge is distributed over heterogeneous forms, using homogeneous information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Zhiyu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Hong Wang , William Wang

Knowledge graph embedding, which projects symbolic entities and relations into continuous vector spaces, is gaining increasing attention. Previous methods allow a single static embedding for each entity or relation, ignoring their intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Quan Wang , Pingping Huang , Haifeng Wang , Songtai Dai , Wenbin Jiang , Jing Liu , Yajuan Lyu , Yong Zhu , Hua Wu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are tasked with answering natural language questions corresponding to a presented image. Traditional VQA datasets typically contain questions related to the spatial information of objects, object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Goonmeet Bajaj , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Schmidt , Pranav Maneriker , Christopher Myers , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Natural language question answering over knowledge graphs is an important and interesting task as it enables common users to gain accurate answers in an easy and intuitive manner. However, it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Weiguo Zheng , Mei Zhang

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multi-modal task that requires not only the semantic understanding of both images and questions, but also the sound perception of a step-by-step reasoning process that would lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Kaiyuan Sun , Josiah Poon

One of the key issues of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is to reason with semantic clues in the visual content under the guidance of the question, how to model relational semantics still remains as a great challenge. To fully capture…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zhuoqian Yang , Zengchang Qin , Jing Yu , Yue Hu

Closed-book question answering (QA) requires a model to directly answer an open-domain question without access to any external knowledge. Prior work on closed-book QA either directly finetunes or prompts a pretrained language model (LM) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Dan Su , Mostofa Patwary , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Peng Xu , Ryan Prenger , Mohammad Shoeybi , Pascale Fung , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Recent advances in reading comprehension have resulted in models that surpass human performance when the answer is contained in a single, continuous passage of text. However, complex Question Answering (QA) typically requires multi-hop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , Viktor Schlegel , Andre Freitas

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to improve factual accuracy by leveraging structured knowledge. However, real-world Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are often incomplete, leading to the problem of Incomplete KGQA (IKGQA). A common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jilong Liu , Pengyang Shao , Wei Qin , Fei Liu , Yonghui Yang , Richang Hong

End-to-end question answering using a differentiable knowledge graph is a promising technique that requires only weak supervision, produces interpretable results, and is fully differentiable. Previous implementations of this technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Priyanka Sen , Amir Saffari , Armin Oliya