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Many structured prediction and reasoning tasks can be framed as program synthesis problems, where the goal is to generate a program in a domain-specific language (DSL) that transforms input data into the desired output. Unfortunately,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shraddha Barke , Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez , Saketh Ram Kasibatla , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nadia Polikarpova

We present a new AI task and baseline solution for Inter-Subjective Reasoning. We define inter-subjective information, to be a mixture of objective and subjective information possibly shared by different parties. Examples may include…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Nick Papoulias

This paper presents a neurosymbolic framework for information extraction from documents, evaluated on transactional documents. We introduce a schema-based approach that integrates symbolic validation methods to enable more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Arthur Hemmer , Mickaël Coustaty , Nicola Bartolo , Jean-Marc Ogier

The goal of active learning for program synthesis is to synthesize the desired program by asking targeted questions that minimize user interaction. While prior work has explored active learning in the purely symbolic setting, such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Celeste Barnaby , Qiaochu Chen , Ramya Ramalingam , Osbert Bastani , Isil Dillig

Cross-lingual open domain question answering (CLQA) is a complex problem, comprising cross-lingual retrieval from a multilingual knowledge base, followed by answer generation in the query language. Both steps are usually tackled by separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Fan Jiang , Tom Drummond , Trevor Cohn

Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) integration combines symbolic reasoning with Neural Networks (NNs) for tasks requiring perception and reasoning. Most NeSy systems rely on continuous relaxation of logical knowledge, and no discrete decisions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Alessandro Daniele , Tommaso Campari , Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

Neural-symbolic methods have demonstrated efficiency in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods mainly rely on syntactically mapping natural languages to complete formal languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Pei Zhang , Baosong Yang , Rui Wang

Many aspects of human reasoning, including language, require learning rules from very little data. Humans can do this, often learning systematic rules from very few examples, and combining these rules to form compositional rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Maxwell I. Nye , Armando Solar-Lezama , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Brenden M. Lake

We propose KDSL, a new word sense disambiguation (WSD) framework that utilizes knowledge to automatically generate sense-labeled data for supervised learning. First, from WordNet, we automatically construct a semantic knowledge base called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Shi Yin , Yi Zhou , Chenguang Li , Shangfei Wang , Jianmin Ji , Xiaoping Chen , Ruili Wang

The design of complex engineering systems is an often long and articulated process that highly relies on engineers' expertise and professional judgment. As such, the typical pitfalls of activities involving the human factor often manifest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shaohong Zhong , Andrea Scarinci , Alice Cicirello

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj

Question Answering (QA) is a growing area of research, often used to facilitate the extraction of information from within documents. State-of-the-art QA models are usually pre-trained on domain-general corpora like Wikipedia and thus tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Matthew Maufe , James Ravenscroft , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

Toward combining inductive reasoning with perception abilities, we develop techniques for neurosymbolic program synthesis where perceptual input is first parsed by neural nets into a low-dimensional interpretable representation, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hao Tang , Kevin Ellis

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

This research work deals with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and extraction of essential information in an explicit form. The most common among the information management strategies is Document Retrieval (DR) and Information Filtering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 K. R. Chowdhary

The extraction of main content from web pages is an important task for numerous applications, ranging from usability aspects, like reader views for news articles in web browsers, to information retrieval or natural language processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Jurek Leonhardt , Avishek Anand , Megha Khosla

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

We are interested in image manipulation via natural language text -- a task that is useful for multiple AI applications but requires complex reasoning over multi-modal spaces. We extend recently proposed Neuro Symbolic Concept Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Harman Singh , Poorva Garg , Mohit Gupta , Kevin Shah , Ashish Goswami , Satyam Modi , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Dinesh Khandelwal , Dinesh Garg , Parag Singla

Web-based 'deep research' agents aim to solve complex question - answering tasks through long-horizon interactions with online tools. These tasks remain challenging, as the underlying language models are often not optimized for long-horizon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shrey Pandit , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Yifei Ming , Austin Xu , Jiayu Wang , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

Inductive program synthesis, or inferring programs from examples of desired behavior, offers a general paradigm for building interpretable, robust, and generalizable machine learning systems. Effective program synthesis depends on two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Catherine Wong , Kevin Ellis , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jacob Andreas