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This paper gives comprehensive analyses of corpora based on Wikipedia for several tasks in question answering. Four recent corpora are collected,WikiQA, SelQA, SQuAD, and InfoQA, and first analyzed intrinsically by contextual similarities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tomasz Jurczyk , Amit Deshmane , Jinho D. Choi

When deciding to read an article or incorporate it into their research, scholars often seek to quickly identify and understand its main ideas. In this paper, we aim to extract these key concepts and contributions from scientific articles in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Hosein Azarbonyad , Zi Long Zhu , Georgios Cheirmpos , Zubair Afzal , Vikrant Yadav , Georgios Tsatsaronis

Existing table question answering datasets contain abundant factual questions that primarily evaluate the query and schema comprehension capability of a system, but they fail to include questions that require complex reasoning and…

This work presents a Biomedical Literature Question Answering (Q&A) system based on a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, designed to improve access to accurate, evidence-based medical information. Addressing the shortcomings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mansi Garg , Lee-Chi Wang , Bhavesh Ghanchi , Sanjana Dumpala , Shreyash Kakde , Yen Chih Chen

Despite recent advances in large language models (LLMs), most QA benchmarks are still confined to single-paragraph or single-document settings, failing to capture the complexity of real-world information-seeking tasks. Practical QA often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jiwon Park , Seohyun Pyeon , Jinwoo Kim , Rina Carines Cabal , Yihao Ding , Soyeon Caren Han

Many real-world applications (e.g., note taking, search) require extracting a sentence or paragraph from a document and showing that snippet to a human outside of the source document. Yet, users may find snippets difficult to understand as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Benjamin Newman , Luca Soldaini , Raymond Fok , Arman Cohan , Kyle Lo

Seeking answers to questions within long scientific research articles is a crucial area of study that aids readers in quickly addressing their inquiries. However, existing question-answering (QA) datasets based on scientific papers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shraman Pramanick , Rama Chellappa , Subhashini Venugopalan

Question answering (QA) aims to understand questions and find appropriate answers. In real-world QA systems, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) based QA is usually a practical and effective solution, especially for some complicated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Yanan Lu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

Recent advances in the healthcare industry have led to an abundance of unstructured data, making it challenging to perform tasks such as efficient and accurate information retrieval at scale. Our work offers an all-in-one scalable solution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shreya Saxena , Raj Sangani , Siva Prasad , Shubham Kumar , Mihir Athale , Rohan Awhad , Vishal Vaddina

One strategy for facilitating reading comprehension is to present information in a question-and-answer format. We demo a system that integrates the tasks of question answering (QA) and question generation (QG) in order to produce Q&A items…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Melissa Roemmele , Deep Sidhpura , Steve DeNeefe , Ling Tsou

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj

We present assertion based question answering (ABQA), an open domain question answering task that takes a question and a passage as inputs, and outputs a semi-structured assertion consisting of a subject, a predicate and a list of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Zhao Yan , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Shujie Liu , Wendi Wang , Daxin Jiang , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitanya Malaviya , Subin Lee , Sihao Chen , Elizabeth Sieber , Mark Yatskar , Dan Roth

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zhongli Li , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

One of the challenges in large-scale information retrieval (IR) is to develop fine-grained and domain-specific methods to answer natural language questions. Despite the availability of numerous sources and datasets for answer retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Asma Ben Abacha , Dina Demner-Fushman

We focus on multiple-choice question answering (QA) tasks in subject areas such as science, where we require both broad background knowledge and the facts from the given subject-area reference corpus. In this work, we explore simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Xiaoman Pan , Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Heng Ji , Claire Cardie , Dong Yu

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions over large-scale knowledge bases (KBs), which can be summarized into two crucial steps: knowledge retrieval and semantic parsing. However, three core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Haoran Luo , Haihong E , Zichen Tang , Shiyao Peng , Yikai Guo , Wentai Zhang , Chenghao Ma , Guanting Dong , Meina Song , Wei Lin , Yifan Zhu , Luu Anh Tuan

When answering complex questions, people can seamlessly combine information from visual, textual and tabular sources. While interest in models that reason over multiple pieces of evidence has surged in recent years, there has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Alon Talmor , Ori Yoran , Amnon Catav , Dan Lahav , Yizhong Wang , Akari Asai , Gabriel Ilharco , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Jonathan Berant

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Open-domain question answering (QA) aims to find the answer to a question from a large collection of documents.Though many models for single-document machine comprehension have achieved strong performance, there is still much room for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mantong Zhou , Zhouxing Shi , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu