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Knowledge models are fundamental to dialogue systems for enabling conversational interactions, which require handling domain-specific knowledge. Ensuring effective communication in information-providing conversations entails aligning user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Phillip Schneider , Nektarios Machner , Kristiina Jokinen , Florian Matthes

Multi-hop question answering (QA) necessitates multi-step reasoning and retrieval across interconnected subjects, attributes, and relations. Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods struggle to capture these structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jimeng Shi , Wei Hu , Runchu Tian , Bowen Jin , Wonbin Kweon , SeongKu Kang , Yunfan Kang , Dingqi Ye , Sizhe Zhou , Shaowen Wang , Jiawei Han

While there has been substantial progress in factoid question-answering (QA), answering complex questions remains challenging, typically requiring both a large body of knowledge and inference techniques. Open Information Extraction (Open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark

Understanding novel situations in the traffic domain requires an intricate combination of domain-specific and causal commonsense knowledge. Prior work has provided sufficient perception-based modalities for traffic monitoring, in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jiarui Zhang , Filip Ilievski , Aravinda Kollaa , Jonathan Francis , Kaixin Ma , Alessandro Oltramari

Commonsense question answering has demonstrated considerable potential across various applications like assistants and social robots. Although fully fine-tuned pre-trained Language Models(LM) have achieved remarkable performance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Ruiting Dai , Yuqiao Tan , Lisi Mo , Shuang Liang , Guohao Huo , Jiayi Luo , Yao Cheng

Representation learning for knowledge graphs (KGs) has focused on the problem of answering simple link prediction queries. In this work we address the more ambitious challenge of predicting the answers of conjunctive queries with multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bhushan Kotnis , Carolin Lawrence , Mathias Niepert

Event commonsense reasoning requires the ability to reason about the relationship between events, as well as infer implicit context underlying that relationship. However, data scarcity makes it challenging for language models to learn to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tianqing Fang , Zeming Chen , Yangqiu Song , Antoine Bosselut

Assistive systems for visually impaired individuals must deliver rapid, interpretable, and adaptive feedback to facilitate real-time navigation. Current approaches face a trade-off between latency and semantic richness: natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ruxiao Chen , Dezheng Han , Wenjie Han , Shuaishuai Guo

In this paper, we are interested in developing semantic parsers which understand natural language questions embedded in a conversation with a user and ground them to formal queries over definitions in a general purpose knowledge graph (KG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Parag Jain , Emilio Monti , Mirella Lapata

While there has been substantial progress in text comprehension through simple factoid question answering, more holistic comprehension of a discourse still presents a major challenge (Dunietz et al., 2020). Someone critically reflecting on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wei-Jen Ko , Cutter Dalton , Mark Simmons , Eliza Fisher , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively supports single-hop question answering with large language models but faces significant limitations in multi-hop question answering tasks, which require combining evidence from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junli Liang , Pengfei Zhou , Wangqiu Zhou , Wenjie Qing , Qi Zhao , Ziwen Wang , Qi Song , Xiangyang Li

Recent generative approaches for multi-hop question answering (QA) utilize the fusion-in-decoder method~\cite{izacard-grave-2021-leveraging} to generate a single sequence output which includes both a final answer and a reasoning path taken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Gowtham Ramesh , Makesh Sreedhar , Junjie Hu

Paragraph-style image captions describe diverse aspects of an image as opposed to the more common single-sentence captions that only provide an abstract description of the image. These paragraph captions can hence contain substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Hyounghun Kim , Mohit Bansal

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is of tremendous interest to the research community with important applications such as aiding visually impaired users and image-based search. In this work, we explore the use of scene graphs for solving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vinay Damodaran , Sharanya Chakravarthy , Akshay Kumar , Anjana Umapathy , Teruko Mitamura , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia , Chenhui Chu

In this work, we benchmark various graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems across a broad spectrum of query types, including OLTP-style (fact-based) and OLAP-style (thematic) queries, to address the complex demands of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Joyce Cahoon , Prerna Singh , Nick Litombe , Jonathan Larson , Ha Trinh , Yiwen Zhu , Andreas Mueller , Fotis Psallidas , Carlo Curino

Multi-hop reasoning question answering requires deep comprehension of relationships between various documents and queries. We propose a Bi-directional Attention Entity Graph Convolutional Network (BAG), leveraging relationships between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yu Cao , Meng Fang , Dacheng Tao

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. Recent work has focused primarily on answering questions given some relevant document or context, and required very little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Herzig , Nicholas Lourie , Jonathan Berant

Knowledge gaps and hallucinations are persistent challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs), which generate unreliable responses when lacking the necessary information to fulfill user instructions. Existing approaches, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Riccardo Pozzi , Matteo Palmonari , Andrea Coletta , Luigi Bellomarini , Jens Lehmann , Sahar Vahdati

Recent advances in search-augmented large reasoning models (LRMs) enable the retrieval of external knowledge to reduce hallucinations in multistep reasoning. However, their ability to operate on graph-structured data, prevalent in domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jiajin Liu , Yuanfu Sun , Dongzhe Fan , Qiaoyu Tan

Knowledge graph simple question answering (KGSQA), in its standard form, does not take into account that human-curated question answering training data only cover a small subset of the relations that exist in a Knowledge Graph (KG), or even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Georgios Sidiropoulos , Nikos Voskarides , Evangelos Kanoulas