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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for ontology engineering. However, it is still unclear to what extent they are applicable to the task of domain-specific ontology generation. In this study, we explore the…

Ontologies are widely used for representing domain knowledge and meta data, playing an increasingly important role in Information Systems, the Semantic Web, Bioinformatics and many other domains. However, logical reasoning that ontologies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaoyan Chen , Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf , Yuan He , Ian Horrocks

Ontology Matching (OM), is a critical task in knowledge integration, where aligning heterogeneous ontologies facilitates data interoperability and knowledge sharing. Traditional OM systems often rely on expert knowledge or predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hamed Babaei Giglou , Jennifer D'Souza , Felix Engel , Sören Auer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in question answering (QA) tasks. However, Multi-Answer Question Answering (MAQA), where a question may have several valid answers, remains challenging. Traditional QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Eviatar Nachshoni , Arie Cattan , Shmuel Amar , Ori Shapira , Ido Dagan

Question Answering (QA) over Knowledge Base (KB) aims to automatically answer natural language questions via well-structured relation information between entities stored in knowledge bases. In order to make KBQA more applicable in actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bin Fu , Yunqi Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Yang Li , Haiyang Yu , Jian Sun

Question Answering (QA) is the task of automatically answering questions posed by humans in natural languages. There are different settings to answer a question, such as abstractive, extractive, boolean, and multiple-choice QA. As a popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhichao Duan , Xiuxing Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhenyu Li , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang

This paper presents a semantic system named OntMed for an ontology-based data integration of heterogeneous data sources to achieve interoperability between heterogeneous data sources. Our system is based on the quality criteria…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Muhammad Fahad

The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly contributed to the development of equitable AI systems capable of factual question-answering (QA). However, no known study tests the LLMs' robustness when presented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shubhra Ghosh , Abhilekh Borah , Aditya Kumar Guru , Kripabandhu Ghosh

In this tutorial, we will survey known results on the complexity of conjunctive query evaluation in different settings, ranging from Boolean queries over counting to more complex models like enumeration and direct access. A particular focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Stefan Mengel

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

In this paper we use results from Computable Set Theory as a means to represent and reason about description logics and rule languages for the semantic web. Specifically, we introduce the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a large amount of world's knowledge is stored in structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Alexander Hanbo Li , Patrick Ng , Peng Xu , Henghui Zhu , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

Representation of defeasible information is of interest in description logics, as it is related to the need of accommodating exceptional instances in knowledge bases. In this direction, in our previous works we presented a datalog…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Loris Bozzato , Thomas Eiter , Luciano Serafini

Text-based Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task which aims at finding short concrete answers for users' questions. This line of research has been widely studied with information retrieval techniques and has received increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly propelled the research on semantic parsing. Improvement has since been made in many downstream tasks, including natural language interface to web APIs, text-to-SQL generation, among others.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Vardaan Pahuja , Gong Cheng , Yu Su

In this paper, we study the problem of numerical multi-table question answering (MTQA) over large-scale table collections (e.g., online data repositories). This task is essential in many analytical applications. Existing MTQA solutions,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Feng Luo , Hai Lan , Hui Luo , Zhifeng Bao , Xiaoli Wang , J. Shane Culpepper , Shazia Sadiq

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

Knowledge bases (KBs) are not static entities: new information constantly appears and some of the previous knowledge becomes obsolete. In order to reflect this evolution of knowledge, KBs should be expanded with the new knowledge and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dmitriy Zheleznyakov , Evgeny Kharlamov , Werner Nutt , Diego Calvanese

Knowledge graphs contain informative factual knowledge but are considered incomplete. To answer complex queries under incomplete knowledge, learning-based Complex Query Answering (CQA) models are proposed to directly learn from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Hang Yin , Zihao Wang , Yangqiu Song

In reverse engineering of database queries, we aim to construct a query from a given set of answers and non-answers; it can then be used to explore the data further or as an explanation of the answers and non-answers. We investigate this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Marie Fortin , Boris Konev , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Yury Savateev , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev