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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the use of digital learning or education platforms has significantly increased. Teachers now digitally distribute homework and provide exercise questions. In both cases, teachers need to continuously develop…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Philipp Scharpf , Moritz Schubotz , Andreas Spitz , Andre Greiner-Petter , Bela Gipp

Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in their ability to generate synthetic query-document pairs by prompting with as few as 8 demonstrations. This has enabled building better IR models, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aditi Chaudhary , Karthik Raman , Michael Bendersky

We propose an end-to-end approach for synthetic QA data generation. Our model comprises a single transformer-based encoder-decoder network that is trained end-to-end to generate both answers and questions. In a nutshell, we feed a passage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Siamak Shakeri , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Henry Zhu , Patrick Ng , Feng Nan , Zhiguo Wang , Ramesh Nallapati , Bing Xiang

Real dialogues with AI assistants for solving data-centric tasks often follow dynamic, unpredictable paths due to imperfect information provided by the user or in the data, which must be caught and handled. Developing datasets which capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Christian Poelitz , Nick McKenna

High quality SQL corpus is essential for intelligent database. For example, Text-to-SQL requires SQL queries and correspond natural language questions as training samples. However, collecting such query corpus remains challenging in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiahui Li , Tongwang Wu , Yuren Mao , Yunjun Gao , Yajie Feng , Huaizhong Liu

Obtaining training data for Question Answering (QA) is time-consuming and resource-intensive, and existing QA datasets are only available for limited domains and languages. In this work, we explore to what extent high quality training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Patrick Lewis , Ludovic Denoyer , Sebastian Riedel

Text-to-SQL generation enables non-experts to interact with databases via natural language. Recent advances rely on large closed-source models like GPT-4 that present challenges in accessibility, privacy, and latency. To address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Satya Krishna Gorti , Ilan Gofman , Zhaoyan Liu , Jiapeng Wu , Noël Vouitsis , Guangwei Yu , Jesse C. Cresswell , Rasa Hosseinzadeh

Tabular question answering (TQA) presents a challenging setting for neural systems by requiring joint reasoning of natural language with large amounts of semi-structured data. Unlike humans who use programmatic tools like filters to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Carlos Gemmell , Jeffrey Dalton

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

The generation of questions and answers (QA) from knowledge graphs (KG) plays a crucial role in the development and testing of educational platforms, dissemination tools, and large language models (LLM). However, existing approaches often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sania Nayab , Marco Simoni , Giulio Rossolini , Andrea Saracino

Data augmentation has attracted a lot of research attention in the deep learning era for its ability in alleviating data sparseness. The lack of labeled data for unseen evaluation databases is exactly the major challenge for cross-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun Wu , Lijie Wang , Zhenghua Li , Ao Zhang , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Min Zhang , Haifeng Wang

Most of the world's data is stored in relational databases. Accessing these requires specialized knowledge of the Structured Query Language (SQL), putting them out of the reach of many people. A recent research thread in Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Bojan Petrovski , Ignacio Aguado , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl , Claudiu Musat

We introduce a novel method of generating synthetic question answering corpora by combining models of question generation and answer extraction, and by filtering the results to ensure roundtrip consistency. By pretraining on the resulting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Chris Alberti , Daniel Andor , Emily Pitler , Jacob Devlin , Michael Collins

The questionnaire is a professional research methodology used for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of human opinions, preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. However, designing and evaluating questionnaires demands significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yan Lei , Liang Pang , Yuanzhuo Wang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Acknowledged as one of the most successful online cooperative projects in human society, Wikipedia has obtained rapid growth in recent years and desires continuously to expand content and disseminate knowledge values for everyone globally.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hoang Thang Ta , Alexander Gelbukha , Grigori Sidorov

Users frequently ask simple factoid questions for question answering (QA) systems, attenuating the impact of myriad recent works that support more complex questions. Prompting users with automatically generated suggested questions (SQs) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xusen Yin , Li Zhou , Kevin Small , Jonathan May

Question Answering (QA) is key for making possible a robust communication between human and machine. Modern language models used for QA have surpassed the human-performance in several essential tasks; however, these models require large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Liubov Nikolenko , Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti

Unsupervised question answering is a promising yet challenging task, which alleviates the burden of building large-scale annotated data in a new domain. It motivates us to study the unsupervised multiple-choice question answering (MCQA)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Qin Zhang , Hao Ge , Xiaojun Chen , Meng Fang

This paper presents an open source methodology for allowing users to query structured non textual datasets through natural language Unlike Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG which struggles with numerical and highly structured information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hontan Valentin-Micu , Bunea Andrei-Alexandru , Tantaroudas Nikolaos Dimitrios , Popovici Dan-Matei

Recent methods for visual question answering rely on large-scale annotated datasets. Manual annotation of questions and answers for videos, however, is tedious, expensive and prevents scalability. In this work, we propose to avoid manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Antoine Yang , Antoine Miech , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid