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The paper presents an approach to build a question and answer system that is capable of processing the information in a large dataset and allows the user to gain knowledge from this dataset by asking questions in natural language form. Key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-07 M. R , Akram , C. P , Singhabahu , M. S. M Saad , P , Deleepa , Anupiya , Nugaliyadde , Yashas , Mallawarachchi

Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural languages. It constitutes a considerable part of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Munazza Zaib , Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Adnan Mahmood , Yang Zhang

In this paper, we address the significant gap in Arabic natural language processing (NLP) resources by introducing ArabicaQA, the first large-scale dataset for machine reading comprehension and open-domain question answering in Arabic. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Mahmoud Kasem , Mahmoud Abdalla , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mohamed Elkasaby , Yasser Elbendary , Adam Jatowt

Spoken question answering (SQA) systems are critical for digital assistants and other real-world use cases, but evaluating their performance is a challenge due to the importance of human-spoken questions. This study presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yijing Wu , SaiKrishna Rallabandi , Ravisutha Srinivasamurthy , Parag Pravin Dakle , Alolika Gon , Preethi Raghavan

As the development of academic conferences fosters global scholarly communication, researchers consistently need to obtain accurate and up-to-date information about academic conferences. Since the information is scattered, using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhiwei Huang , Juan Li , Long Jin , Junjie Wang , Mingchen Tu , Yin Hua , Zhiqiang Liu , Jiawei Meng , Wen Zhang

Clinical question answering systems have the potential to provide clinicians with relevant and timely answers to their questions. Nonetheless, despite the advances that have been made, adoption of these systems in clinical settings has been…

We introduce ChronoQA, a large-scale benchmark dataset for Chinese question answering, specifically designed to evaluate temporal reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. ChronoQA is constructed from over 300,000 news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ziyang Chen , Erxue Min , Xiang Zhao , Yunxin Li , Xin Jia , Jinzhi Liao , Jichao Li , Shuaiqiang Wang , Baotian Hu , Dawei Yin

The absence of explicitly tailored, accessible annotated datasets for educational purposes presents a notable obstacle for NLP tasks in languages with limited resources.This study initially explores the feasibility of using machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Hailay Teklehaymanot , Dren Fazlija , Niloy Ganguly , Gourab K. Patro , Wolfgang Nejdl

Conversational and task-oriented dialogue systems aim to interact with the user using natural responses through multi-modal interfaces, such as text or speech. These desired responses are in the form of full-length natural answers generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Vaishali Pal , Manish Shrivastava , Laurent Besacier

Multimodal reasoning is a critical component in the pursuit of artificial intelligence systems that exhibit human-like intelligence, especially when tackling complex tasks. While the chain-of-thought (CoT) technique has gained considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingxuan Wei , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) poses a stringent test of general AI capabilities, requiring solvers to infer abstract patterns from only a handful of examples. Despite substantial progress in deep learning, state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Woochang Sim , Hyunseok Ryu , Kyungmin Choi , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim

Commonsense reasoning is a critical AI capability, but it is difficult to construct challenging datasets that test common sense. Recent neural question answering systems, based on large pre-trained models of language, have already achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Chen , Mike D'Arcy , Alisa Liu , Jared Fernandez , Doug Downey

The AM-DeepSeek-R1-Distilled is a large-scale dataset with thinking traces for general reasoning tasks, composed of high-quality and challenging reasoning problems. These problems are collected from a multitude of open-source datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Han Zhao , Haotian Wang , Yiping Peng , Sitong Zhao , Xiaoyu Tian , Shuaiting Chen , Yunjie Ji , Xiangang Li

In spoken question answering, QA systems are designed to answer questions from contiguous text spans within the related speech transcripts. However, the most natural way that human seek or test their knowledge is via human conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Fenglin Liu , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

The ideal form of Visual Question Answering requires understanding, grounding and reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most existing VQA benchmarks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Kang Chen , Xiangqian Wu

A challenge in creating a dataset for machine reading comprehension (MRC) is to collect questions that require a sophisticated understanding of language to answer beyond using superficial cues. In this work, we investigate what makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Saku Sugawara , Kentaro Inui , Satoshi Sekine , Akiko Aizawa

Readers of academic research papers often read with the goal of answering specific questions. Question Answering systems that can answer those questions can make consumption of the content much more efficient. However, building such tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Pradeep Dasigi , Kyle Lo , Iz Beltagy , Arman Cohan , Noah A. Smith , Matt Gardner

Document-based question answering (QA) increasingly includes abstract questions that require synthesizing scattered information from long documents or across multiple documents into coherent answers. However, this setting is still poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shu Wang , Shansong Zhou , Xinyang Wang , Shiwei Wang , Hulong Wu , Yixiang Fang

Community Question Answering (CQA) forums provide answers for many real-life questions. Thanks to the large size, these forums are very popular among machine learning researchers. Automatic answer selection, answer ranking, question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Naghme Jamali , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Hesham Faili

Modern machine learning relies on datasets to develop and validate research ideas. Given the growth of publicly available data, finding the right dataset to use is increasingly difficult. Any research question imposes explicit and implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vijay Viswanathan , Luyu Gao , Tongshuang Wu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig