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We introduce REALTIME QA, a dynamic question answering (QA) platform that announces questions and evaluates systems on a regular basis (weekly in this version). REALTIME QA inquires about the current world, and QA systems need to answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jungo Kasai , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Yoichi Takahashi , Ronan Le Bras , Akari Asai , Xinyan Yu , Dragomir Radev , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi , Kentaro Inui

The predominant approach to Visual Question Answering (VQA) demands that the model represents within its weights all of the information required to answer any question about any image. Learning this information from any real training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Question answering (QA) has become a popular way for humans to access billion-scale knowledge bases. Unlike web search, QA over a knowledge base gives out accurate and concise results, provided that natural language questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Wanyun Cui , Yanghua Xiao , Haixun Wang , Yangqiu Song , Seung-won Hwang , Wei Wang

One of the challenges in large-scale information retrieval (IR) is to develop fine-grained and domain-specific methods to answer natural language questions. Despite the availability of numerous sources and datasets for answer retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Asma Ben Abacha , Dina Demner-Fushman

This paper introduces QAConv, a new question answering (QA) dataset that uses conversations as a knowledge source. We focus on informative conversations, including business emails, panel discussions, and work channels. Unlike open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Wenhao Liu , Pascale Fung , Caiming Xiong

Reading comprehension models answer questions posed in natural language when provided with a short passage of text. They present an opportunity to address a long-standing challenge in data management: the extraction of structured data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qiming Wang , Raul Castro Fernandez

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. It has earned increasing attention with recent research trends in joint vision and language understanding. Yet, compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yaoyao Zhong , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Yicong Li , Weihong Deng , Tat-Seng Chua

Question answering (QA) over structured tables requires not only accurate answers but also transparency about which cells support them. Existing table QA systems rarely provide fine-grained attribution, so even correct answers often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tejas Anvekar , Junha Park , Rajat Jha , Devanshu Gupta , Poojah Ganesan , Puneeth Mathur , Vivek Gupta

The problem of verifying whether a textual hypothesis holds based on the given evidence, also known as fact verification, plays an important role in the study of natural language understanding and semantic representation. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wenhu Chen , Hongmin Wang , Jianshu Chen , Yunkai Zhang , Hong Wang , Shiyang Li , Xiyou Zhou , William Yang Wang

We present NewsQA, a challenging machine comprehension dataset of over 100,000 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers supply questions and answers based on a set of over 10,000 news articles from CNN, with answers consisting of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Adam Trischler , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Justin Harris , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

Tabular data is a fundamental component of real-world information systems, yet most research in table understanding remains confined to English, leaving multilingual comprehension significantly underexplored. Existing multilingual table…

Conversational question answering (ConvQA) tackles sequential information needs where contexts in follow-up questions are left implicit. Current ConvQA systems operate over homogeneous sources of information: either a knowledge base (KB),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues. It contains 22k multiple-choice questions annotated by human for over 11k dialogues with 120k utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Huqun Suri , Qi Zhang , Wenhua Huo , Yan Liu , Chunsheng Guan

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) tasks that involve complex reasoning are emerging as an important research direction. However, most existing KBQA datasets focus primarily on generic multi-hop reasoning over explicit facts, largely…

Tabular data embedded in PDF files, web pages, and other types of documents is prevalent in various domains. These tables, which we call human-centric tables (HCTs for short), are dense in information but often exhibit complex structural…

While day-to-day questions come with a variety of answer types, the current question-answering (QA) literature has failed to adequately address the answer diversity of questions. To this end, we present GooAQ, a large-scale dataset with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Daniel Khashabi , Amos Ng , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Chris Callison-Burch

The ability to explain complex information from chart images is vital for effective data-driven decision-making. In this work, we address the challenge of generating detailed explanations alongside answering questions about charts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Shamanthak Hegde , Pooyan Fazli , Hasti Seifi

Automatic question generation can benefit many applications ranging from dialogue systems to reading comprehension. While questions are often asked with respect to long documents, there are many challenges with modeling such long documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Luu Anh Tuan , Darsh J Shah , Regina Barzilay

Recent advances in transformers have enabled Table Question Answering (Table QA) systems to achieve high accuracy and SOTA results on open domain datasets like WikiTableQuestions and WikiSQL. Such transformers are frequently pre-trained on…

Question Answering (QA), as a research field, has primarily focused on either knowledge bases (KBs) or free text as a source of knowledge. These two sources have historically shaped the kinds of questions that are asked over these sources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Igor Labutov , Bishan Yang , Anusha Prakash , Amos Azaria