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Collaborative reasoning for understanding image-question pairs is a very critical but underexplored topic in interpretable visual question answering systems. Although very recent studies have attempted to use explicit compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various tasks but remain prone to hallucinations in knowledge-intensive scenarios. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) mitigates this by grounding generation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shuai Wang , Xixi Wang , Yinan Yu

Knowledgebase question answering systems are heavily dependent on relation extraction and linking modules. However, the task of extracting and linking relations from text to knowledgebases faces two primary challenges; the ambiguity of…

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) poses new challenges over logical reasoning, which aims to understand the implicit logical relations entailed in the given contexts and perform inference over them. Due to the complexity of logic, logical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jialin Chen , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Multihop Question Answering is a complex Natural Language Processing task that requires multiple steps of reasoning to find the correct answer to a given question. Previous research has explored the use of models based on Graph Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ieva Staliūnaitė , Philip John Gorinski , Ignacio Iacobacci

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) challenges models to bridge the gap between natural language and strict knowledge graph schemas by generating executable logical forms. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced this field,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xin Sun , Zhongqi Chen , Xing Zheng , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Bowen Song , Zilei Wang , Weiqiang Wang , Liang Wang

In conversational question answering, users express their information needs through a series of utterances with incomplete context. Typical ConvQA methods rely on a single source (a knowledge base (KB), or a text corpus, or a set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Answering factual questions with temporal intent over knowledge graphs (temporal KGQA) attracts rising attention in recent years. In the generation of temporal queries, existing KGQA methods ignore the fact that some intrinsic connections…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wentao Ding , Hao Chen , Huayu Li , Yuzhong Qu

A key challenge in video question answering is how to realize the cross-modal semantic alignment between textual concepts and corresponding visual objects. Existing methods mostly seek to align the word representations with the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Zenan Xu , Wanjun Zhong , Qinliang Su , Zijing Ou , Fuwei Zhang

Answering natural language questions on knowledge graphs (KGQA) remains a great challenge in terms of understanding complex questions via multi-hop reasoning. Previous efforts usually exploit large-scale entity-related text corpora or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zile Qiao , Wei Ye , Tong Zhang , Tong Mo , Weiping Li , Shikun Zhang

Open Domain Question Answering (QA) is evolving from complex pipelined systems to end-to-end deep neural networks. Specialized neural models have been developed for extracting answers from either text alone or Knowledge Bases (KBs) alone.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Haitian Sun , Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Kathryn Mazaitis , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

In this research, we combine Transformer-based relation extraction with matching of knowledge graphs (KGs) and apply them to answering multiple-choice questions (MCQs) while maintaining the traceability of the output process. KGs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Naoki Shimoda , Akihiro Yamamoto

In Web search, entity-seeking queries often trigger a special Question Answering (QA) system. It may use a parser to interpret the question to a structured query, execute that on a knowledge graph (KG), and return direct entity responses.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Uma Sawant , Saurabh Garg , Soumen Chakrabarti , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) has been a long-standing field to answer questions based on knowledge bases. Recently, the evolving dynamics of knowledge have attracted a growing interest in Temporal Knowledge Graph Question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Miao Su , Zixuan Li , Zhuo Chen , Long Bai , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo

Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-the-art methods do not achieve optimal results, therefore,…

Multi-paragraph reasoning is indispensable for open-domain question answering (OpenQA), which receives less attention in the current OpenQA systems. In this work, we propose a knowledge-enhanced graph neural network (KGNN), which performs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Deming Ye , Yankai Lin , Zhenghao Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Knowledge graph (KG) question generation (QG) aims to generate natural language questions from KGs and target answers. Previous works mostly focus on a simple setting which is to generate questions from a single KG triple. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Mohammed J. Zaki

Question answering (QA) over knowledge bases (KBs) is challenging because of the diverse, essentially unbounded, types of reasoning patterns needed. However, we hypothesize in a large KB, reasoning patterns required to answer a query type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajarshi Das , Ameya Godbole , Ankita Naik , Elliot Tower , Robin Jia , Manzil Zaheer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum

Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input. For information-seeking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Phillip Schneider , Manuel Klettner , Kristiina Jokinen , Elena Simperl , Florian Matthes

Semantic parsing transforms a natural language question into a formal query over a knowledge base. Many existing methods rely on syntactic parsing like dependencies. However, the accuracy of producing such expressive formalisms is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yawei Sun , Lingling Zhang , Gong Cheng , Yuzhong Qu