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This paper highlights the challenges, current trends, and open issues related to the representation, querying and analytics of content extracted from texts. The internet contains vast text-based information on various subjects, including…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Genoveva Vargas-Solar , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves , Anne-Lyse Minard Forst

Knowledge base population seeks to expand knowledge graphs with facts that are typically extracted from a text corpus. Recently, language models pretrained on large corpora have been shown to contain factual knowledge that can be retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Andrés García-Silva , Cristian Berrío , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

This paper addresses the problem of mapping natural language text to knowledge base entities. The mapping process is approached as a composition of a phrase or a sentence into a point in a multi-dimensional entity space obtained from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Dimitri Kartsaklis , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Nigel Collier

Acquiring factual knowledge for language models (LMs) in low-resource languages poses a serious challenge, thus resorting to cross-lingual transfer in multilingual LMs (ML-LMs). In this study, we ask how ML-LMs acquire and represent factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xin Zhao , Naoki Yoshinaga , Daisuke Oba

With the rapid development of knowledge base,question answering based on knowledge base has been a hot research issue. In this paper, we focus on answering singlerelation factoid questions based on knowledge base. We build a question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Zhaohui Chao , Lin Li

Judging the veracity of a sentence making one or more claims is an important and challenging problem with many dimensions. The recent FEVER task asked participants to classify input sentences as either SUPPORTED, REFUTED or NotEnoughInfo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Padia , Francis Ferraro , Tim Finin

Humans often have to read multiple documents to address their information needs. However, most existing reading comprehension (RC) tasks only focus on questions for which the contexts provide all the information required to answer them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 James Ferguson , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Tushar Khot , Pradeep Dasigi

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Soumya Jahagirdar , Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Large sense-annotated datasets are increasingly necessary for training deep supervised systems in Word Sense Disambiguation. However, gathering high-quality sense-annotated data for as many instances as possible is a laborious and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Tommaso Pasini , Jose Camacho-Collados

This paper focuses on how to take advantage of external relational knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension (MRC) with multi-task learning. Most of the traditional methods in MRC assume that the knowledge used to get the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Recent work in entity disambiguation (ED) has typically neglected structured knowledge base (KB) facts, and instead relied on a limited subset of KB information, such as entity descriptions or types. This limits the range of contexts in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tom Ayoola , Joseph Fisher , Andrea Pierleoni

Commonsense knowledge is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to engage in human-like reasoning, which requires a deeper understanding of context and often involves making inferences based on implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yubo Xie , Zonghui Liu , Zongyang Ma , Fanyuan Meng , Yan Xiao , Fahui Miao , Pearl Pu

Existing question answering methods infer answers either from a knowledge base or from raw text. While knowledge base (KB) methods are good at answering compositional questions, their performance is often affected by the incompleteness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Siva Reddy , Andrew McCallum

We present a novel extension to embedding-based knowledge graph completion models which enables them to perform open-world link prediction, i.e. to predict facts for entities unseen in training based on their textual description. Our model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Haseeb Shah , Johannes Villmow , Adrian Ulges , Ulrich Schwanecke , Faisal Shafait

Pretrained language models can encode a large amount of knowledge and utilize it for various reasoning tasks, yet they can still struggle to learn novel factual knowledge effectively from finetuning on limited textual demonstrations. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiao Zhang , Miao Li , Ji Wu

Human tackle reading comprehension not only based on the given context itself but often rely on the commonsense beyond. To empower the machine with commonsense reasoning, in this paper, we propose a Commonsense Evidence Generation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ye Liu , Tao Yang , Zeyu You , Wei Fan , Philip S. Yu

Pretrained language models have been suggested as a possible alternative or complement to structured knowledge bases. However, this emerging LM-as-KB paradigm has so far only been considered in a very limited setting, which only allows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Benjamin Heinzerling , Kentaro Inui

LLMs are known to store vast amounts of knowledge in their parametric memory. However, learning and recalling facts from this memory is known to be unreliable, depending largely on the prevalence of particular facts in the training data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jessy Lin , Vincent-Pierre Berges , Xilun Chen , Wen-Tau Yih , Gargi Ghosh , Barlas Oğuz

Enabling artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, to integrate new knowledge and flexibly apply it during reasoning remains a central challenge. Existing knowledge editing approaches emphasize atomic facts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ya Gao , Kalle Kujanpää , Pekka Marttinen , Harri Valpola , Alexander Ilin

Text Summarization is recognised as one of the NLP downstream tasks and it has been extensively investigated in recent years. It can assist people with perceiving the information rapidly from the Internet, including news articles, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund Lai , Jianhua Jiang