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Complex Query Answering (CQA) is a crucial reasoning task over Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which aims to answer first-order logical queries from incomplete KGs. While existing neural-symbolic methods achieve strong performance, they face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weizhi Fei , Zihao Wang , hang Yin , Shukai Zhao , Wei Zhang , Yangqiu Song

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

Retrieval augmented language models have recently become the standard for knowledge intensive tasks. Rather than relying purely on latent semantics within the parameters of large neural models, these methods enlist a semi-parametric memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Wenhu Chen , Pat Verga , Michiel de Jong , John Wieting , William Cohen

When evaluating an answer choice for Reading Comprehension task, other answer choices available for the question and the answers of related questions about the same paragraph often provide valuable information. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rajkumar Pujari , Dan Goldwasser

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

Existing Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) architectures are hungry for annotated data, which make them costly and time-consuming to deploy. We introduce the problem of few-shot transfer learning for KBQA, where the target domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mayur Patidar , Riya Sawhney , Avinash Singh , Biswajit Chatterjee , Mausam , Indrajit Bhattacharya

Answering complex questions over knowledge bases (KB-QA) faces huge input data with billions of facts, involving millions of entities and thousands of predicates. For efficiency, QA systems first reduce the answer search space by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Humans achieve efficient learning by relying on prior knowledge about the structure of naturally occurring tasks. There is considerable interest in designing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms with similar properties. This includes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jan Humplik , Alexandre Galashov , Leonard Hasenclever , Pedro A. Ortega , Yee Whye Teh , Nicolas Heess

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

Relation detection is a core component for many NLP applications including Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). In this paper, we propose a hierarchical recurrent neural network enhanced by residual learning that detects KB relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Mo Yu , Wenpeng Yin , Kazi Saidul Hasan , Cicero dos Santos , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

In this document I present an approach to answer validation and reranking for question answering (QA) systems. A cased-based reasoning (CBR) system judges answer candidates for questions from annotated answer candidates for earlier…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Karl-Heinz Weis

Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions about an image by integrating external knowledge, posing significant challenges due to noisy retrieval and the structured, encyclopedic nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shan Ning , Longtian Qiu , Xuming He

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer factoid questions based on knowledge bases. However, generating the most appropriate knowledge base query code based on Natural Language Questions (NLQ) poses a significant challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yunlong Chen , Yaming Zhang , Jianfei Yu , Li Yang , Rui Xia

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

Deep learning underpins most of the currently advanced natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as textual classification, neural machine translation (NMT), abstractive summarization and question-answering (QA). However, the robustness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiyao Li , Mingze Ni , Yongshun Gong , Wei Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel Reinforcement Learning approach for solving the Active Information Acquisition problem, which requires an agent to choose a sequence of actions in order to acquire information about a process of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Heejin Jeong , Brent Schlotfeldt , Hamed Hassani , Manfred Morari , Daniel D. Lee , George J. Pappas

Question answering (QA) systems are sensitive to the many different ways natural language expresses the same information need. In this paper we turn to paraphrases as a means of capturing this knowledge and present a general framework which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Li Dong , Jonathan Mallinson , Siva Reddy , Mirella Lapata

Existing KBQA approaches, despite achieving strong performance on i.i.d. test data, often struggle in generalizing to questions involving unseen KB schema items. Prior ranking-based approaches have shown some success in generalization, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xi Ye , Semih Yavuz , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Current methods for Knowledge-Based Question Answering (KBQA) usually rely on complex training techniques and model frameworks, leading to many limitations in practical applications. Recently, the emergence of In-Context Learning (ICL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zhijie Nie , Richong Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Xudong Liu