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We present a new perspective on neural knowledge base (KB) embeddings, from which we build a framework that can model symbolic knowledge in the KB together with its learning process. We show that this framework well regularizes previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiaxin Shi , Jun Zhu

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Early studies mainly focused on answering simple questions over KBs and achieved great success. However, their performance on complex questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yunshi Lan , Gaole He , Jinhao Jiang , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBs) aims to answer natural language questions with factual information such as entities and relations in KBs. Previous methods either generate logical forms that can be executed over KBs to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Donghan Yu , Sheng Zhang , Patrick Ng , Henghui Zhu , Alexander Hanbo Li , Jun Wang , Yiqun Hu , William Wang , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

The generalization problem on KBQA has drawn considerable attention. Existing research suffers from the generalization issue brought by the entanglement in the coarse-grained modeling of the logical expression, or inexecutability issues due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Lingxi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yanling Wang , Shulin Cao , Xinmei Huang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen , Juanzi Li

The limits of applicability of vision-and-language models are defined by the coverage of their training data. Tasks like vision question answering (VQA) often require commonsense and factual information beyond what can be learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Violetta Shevchenko , Damien Teney , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Question answering over knowledge base (KB-QA) has recently become a popular research topic in NLP. One popular way to solve the KB-QA problem is to make use of a pipeline of several NLP modules, including entity discovery and linking (EDL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Dekun Wu , Nana Nosirova , Hui Jiang , Mingbin Xu

This paper considers the problem of knowledge inference on large-scale imperfect repositories with incomplete coverage by means of embedding entities and relations at the first attempt. We propose IIKE (Imperfect and Incomplete Knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Miao Fan , Qiang Zhou , Thomas Fang Zheng

Knowledge Bases (KBs) play a key role in various applications. As two representative KB-related tasks, knowledge base completion (KBC) and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are closely related and inherently complementary with each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yinan Liu , Dongying Lin , Sigang Luo , Xiaochun Yang , Bin Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly improved text embeddings for a growing array of natural-language processing tasks. However, their opaqueness and proliferation into scientific domains such as neuroscience have created a growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vinamra Benara , Chandan Singh , John X. Morris , Richard Antonello , Ion Stoica , Alexander G. Huth , Jianfeng Gao

Large-scale knowledge bases have currently reached impressive sizes; however, these knowledge bases are still far from complete. In addition, most of the existing methods for knowledge base completion only consider the direct links between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xixun Lin , Yanchun Liang , Fausto Giunchiglia , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Query embedding (QE) -- which aims to embed entities and first-order logical (FOL) queries in low-dimensional spaces -- has shown great power in multi-hop reasoning over knowledge graphs. Recently, embedding entities and queries with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Zhanqiu Zhang , Jie Wang , Jiajun Chen , Shuiwang Ji , Feng Wu

In this position paper, we propose a new approach to generating a type of knowledge base (KB) from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wenhu Chen , William W. Cohen , Michiel De Jong , Nitish Gupta , Alessandro Presta , Pat Verga , John Wieting

Most of previous work in knowledge base (KB) completion has focused on the problem of relation extraction. In this work, we focus on the task of inferring missing entity type instances in a KB, a fundamental task for KB competition yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Arvind Neelakantan , Ming-Wei Chang

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Recently, a large number of studies focus on semantically or syntactically complicated questions. In this paper, we elaborately summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yunshi Lan , Gaole He , Jinhao Jiang , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, especially for complex questions which require multiple facts to answer. Question decomposition is a promising way to answer complex questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Xiang Huang , Sitao Cheng , Yiheng Shu , Yuheng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

Embedding-based methods are popular for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA), but few current models have numerical reasoning skills and thus struggle to answer ordinal constrained questions. This paper proposes a new embedding-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yu Feng , Jing Zhang , Xiaokang Zhang , Lemao Liu , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Formulating and answering logical queries is a standard communication interface for knowledge graphs (KGs). Alleviating the notorious incompleteness of real-world KGs, neural methods achieved impressive results in link prediction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Mikhail Galkin , Zhaocheng Zhu , Hongyu Ren , Jian Tang

We propose a new framework for combining entity resolution and query answering in knowledge bases (KBs) with tuple-generating dependencies (tgds) and equality-generating dependencies (egds) as rules. We define the semantics of the KB in…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ronald Fagin , Phokion G. Kolaitis , Domenico Lembo , Lucian Popa , Federico Scafoglieri

Answering complex logical queries on large-scale incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs) is a fundamental yet challenging task. Recently, a promising approach to this problem has been to embed KG entities as well as the query into a vector space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hongyu Ren , Weihua Hu , Jure Leskovec

Knowledge Bases (KBs) require constant up-dating to reflect changes to the world they represent. For general purpose KBs, this is often done through Relation Extraction (RE), the task of predicting KB relations expressed in text mentioning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Peng Xu , Denilson Barbosa