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Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

Question Answering is a task which requires building models capable of providing answers to questions expressed in human language. Full question answering involves some form of reasoning ability. We introduce a neural network architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Andrea Madotto , Giuseppe Attardi

We present a system for answering questions based on the full text of books (BookQA), which first selects book passages given a question at hand, and then uses a memory network to reason and predict an answer. To improve generalization, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Stefanos Angelidis , Lea Frermann , Diego Marcheggiani , Roi Blanco , Lluís Màrquez

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a recent problem in computer vision and natural language processing that has garnered a large amount of interest from the deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing communities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

Information needs are naturally represented as questions. Automatic Natural-Language Question Answering (NLQA) has only recently become a practical task on a larger scale and without domain constraints. This paper gives a brief introduction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jochen L. Leidner

Product Question Answering (PQA) systems are key in e-commerce applications to provide responses to customers' questions as they shop for products. While existing work on PQA focuses mainly on English, in practice there is need to support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiaoyu Shen , Akari Asai , Bill Byrne , Adrià de Gispert

We analyze the language learned by an agent trained with reinforcement learning as a component of the ActiveQA system [Buck et al., 2017]. In ActiveQA, question answering is framed as a reinforcement learning task in which an agent sits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Christian Buck , Jannis Bulian , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Wojciech Gajewski , Andrea Gesmundo , Neil Houlsby , Wei Wang

We introduce the new task of Acoustic Question Answering (AQA) to promote research in acoustic reasoning. The AQA task consists of analyzing an acoustic scene composed by a combination of elementary sounds and answering questions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Jerome Abdelnour , Giampiero Salvi , Jean Rouat

Semantic Question Answering (SQA) systems automatically interpret user questions expressed in a natural language in terms of semantic queries. This process involves uncertainty, such that the resulting queries do not always accurately match…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Hamid Zafar , Mohnish Dubey , Jens Lehmann , Elena Demidova

In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task. We combine and compare three models, Neural Machine Translation, Neural Turing Machine, and Memory Networks for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Yang Yu , Wei Zhang , Chung-Wei Hang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

With the rapid growth in sensor data, effectively interpreting and interfacing with these data in a human-understandable way has become crucial. While existing research primarily focuses on learning classification models, fewer studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Benjamin Reichman , Xiaofan Yu , Lanxiang Hu , Jack Truxal , Atishay Jain , Rushil Chandrupatla , Tajana Šimunić Rosing , Larry Heck

Question answering (QA) is an important aspect of open-domain conversational agents, garnering specific research focus in the conversational QA (ConvQA) subtask. One notable limitation of recent ConvQA efforts is the response being answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Kevin Small

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

We introduce Talk to Papers, which exploits the recent open-domain question answering (QA) techniques to improve the current experience of academic search. It's designed to enable researchers to use natural language queries to find precise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Tianchang Zhao , Kyusong Lee

Electronic health records (EHRs) hold significant value for research and applications. As a new way of information extraction, question answering (QA) can extract more flexible information than conventional methods and is more accessible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Huaiyuan Ying , Sheng Yu

In the era of Big Knowledge Graphs, Question Answering (QA) systems have reached a milestone in their performance and feasibility. However, their applicability, particularly in specific domains such as the biomedical domain, has not gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Abhishek Nadgeri , Kuldeep Singh

Neural Conversational QA tasks like ShARC require systems to answer questions based on the contents of a given passage. On studying recent state-of-the-art models on the ShARCQA task, we found indications that the models learn spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nikhil Verma , Abhishek Sharma , Dhiraj Madan , Danish Contractor , Harshit Kumar , Sachindra Joshi

Some Question Answering (QA) systems rely on knowledge bases (KBs) to provide accurate answers. Entity Linking (EL) plays a critical role in linking natural language mentions to KB entries. However, most existing EL methods are designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yajie Luo , Yihong Wu , Muzhi Li , Jia Ao Sun , Xinyu Wang , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

A question answering system that in addition to providing an answer provides an explanation of the reasoning that leads to that answer has potential advantages in terms of debuggability, extensibility and trust. To this end, we propose QED,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Matthew Lamm , Jennimaria Palomaki , Chris Alberti , Daniel Andor , Eunsol Choi , Livio Baldini Soares , Michael Collins