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This paper presents a system which learns to answer questions on a broad range of topics from a knowledge base using few hand-crafted features. Our model learns low-dimensional embeddings of words and knowledge base constituents; these…

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This study explores the effectiveness of using knowledge graphs generated by large language models to decompose high school-level physics questions into sub-questions. We introduce a pipeline aimed at enhancing model response quality for…

Direct answering of questions that involve multiple entities and relations is a challenge for text-based QA. This problem is most pronounced when answers can be found only by joining evidence from multiple documents. Curated knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaolu Lu , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Abdalghani Abujabal , Yafang Wang , Gerhard Weikum

Clinical Question Answering (QA) systems enable doctors to quickly access patient information from electronic health records (EHRs). However, training these systems requires significant annotated data, which is limited due to the expertise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fan Bai , Keith Harrigian , Joel Stremmel , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

In this paper, we focus on task-specific question answering (QA). To this end, we introduce a method for generating exhaustive and high-quality training data, which allows us to train compact (e.g., run on a mobile device), task-specific QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hai X. Pham , Isma Hadji , Xinnuo Xu , Ziedune Degutyte , Jay Rainey , Evangelos Kazakos , Afsaneh Fazly , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Question Answering (QA) systems provide easy access to the vast amount of knowledge without having to know the underlying complex structure of the knowledge. The research community has provided ad hoc solutions to the key QA tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Somayeh Asadifar , Mohsen Kahani , Saeedeh Shekarpour

The generation of questions and answers (QA) from knowledge graphs (KG) plays a crucial role in the development and testing of educational platforms, dissemination tools, and large language models (LLM). However, existing approaches often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sania Nayab , Marco Simoni , Giulio Rossolini , Andrea Saracino

Knowledge Graphs (KG) act as a great tool for holding distilled information from large natural language text corpora. The problem of natural language querying over knowledge graphs is essential for the human consumption of this information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Aayushee Gupta , K. M. Annervaz , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Shubhashis Sengupta

Query graph construction aims to construct the correct executable SPARQL on the KG to answer natural language questions. Although recent methods have achieved good results using neural network-based query graph ranking, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yongrui Chen , Huiying Li , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu , Tenggou Wang

Prior work on automated question generation has almost exclusively focused on generating simple questions whose answers can be extracted from a single document. However, there is an increasing interest in developing systems that are capable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Devendra Singh Sachan , Lingfei Wu , Mrinmaya Sachan , William Hamilton

Question and answer generation (QAG) consists of generating a set of question-answer pairs given a context (e.g. a paragraph). This task has a variety of applications, such as data augmentation for question answering (QA) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Asahi Ushio , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Jose Camacho-Collados

Asking good questions is an essential ability for both human and machine intelligence. However, existing neural question generation approaches mainly focus on the short factoid type of answers. In this paper, we propose a neural question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Chien-Sheng Wu , Philippe Laban , Tong Niu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

The visual question generation (VQG) task aims to generate human-like questions from an image and potentially other side information (e.g. answer type). Previous works on VQG fall in two aspects: i) They suffer from one image to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kai Shen , Lingfei Wu , Siliang Tang , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Yueting Zhuang , Jian Pei

Methods for query answering over incomplete knowledge graphs retrieve entities that are likely to be answers, which is particularly useful when such answers cannot be reached by direct graph traversal due to missing edges. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Daniel Daza , Alberto Bernardi , Luca Costabello , Christophe Gueret , Masoud Mansoury , Michael Cochez , Martijn Schut

Commonsense question answering aims to answer questions which require background knowledge that is not explicitly expressed in the question. The key challenge is how to obtain evidence from external knowledge and make predictions based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shangwen Lv , Daya Guo , Jingjing Xu , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Guihong Cao , Songlin Hu

Multi-hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate complex questions which require reasoning over multiple pieces of information of the input passage. Most existing work on MQG has focused on exploring graph-based networks to equip the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Dan Su , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

Question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA) has evolved from simple single-fact questions to complex questions that require graph traversal and aggregation. We propose a novel approach for complex KGQA that uses unsupervised message…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Javier David Fernandez Garcia , Axel Polleres , Maarten de Rijke , Michael Cochez

Automatic question generation (QG) serves a wide range of purposes, such as augmenting question-answering (QA) corpora, enhancing chatbot systems, and developing educational materials. Despite its importance, most existing datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) requires the machine to answer complex questions by finding scattering clues and reasoning from multiple documents. Graph Network (GN) and Question Decomposition (QD) are two common approaches at present.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jiawei Li , Mucheng Ren , Yang Gao , Yizhe Yang

Question answering (QA) over knowledge bases (KBs) is challenging because of the diverse, essentially unbounded, types of reasoning patterns needed. However, we hypothesize in a large KB, reasoning patterns required to answer a query type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajarshi Das , Ameya Godbole , Ankita Naik , Elliot Tower , Robin Jia , Manzil Zaheer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum