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We present the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) dataset, a dataset consisting of 335k question-query pairs over the Wikidata knowledge graph. It is over 11x larger than the largest existing Wikidata datasets of similar format without relying on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sebastian Walter , Hannah Bast

The conversational search paradigm introduces a step change over the traditional search paradigm by allowing users to interact with search agents in a multi-turn and natural fashion. The conversation flows naturally and is usually centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mariana Leite , Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

Many place-related questions can only be answered by complex spatial reasoning, a task poorly supported by factoid question retrieval. Such reasoning using combinations of spatial and non-spatial criteria pertinent to place-related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ehsan Hamzei , Martin Tomko , Stephan Winter

This work is done as part of a research master's thesis project. The goal is to generate SPARQL queries based on user-supplied keywords to query RDF graphs. To do this, we first transformed the input ontology into an RDF graph that reflects…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Emna Jabri

Given a natural language phrase, relation linking aims to find a relation (predicate or property) from the underlying knowledge graph to match the phrase. It is very useful in many applications, such as natural language question answering,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Weiguo Zheng , Mei Zhang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is fundamental to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including semantic search and question answering. The NLI problem has gained significant attention thanks to the release of large scale,…

Question Answering (QA) over Knowledge Base (KB) aims to automatically answer natural language questions via well-structured relation information between entities stored in knowledge bases. In order to make KBQA more applicable in actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bin Fu , Yunqi Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Yang Li , Haiyang Yu , Jian Sun

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of neural query graph ranking approaches for the task of complex question answering over knowledge graphs. We experiment with six different ranking models and propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Denis Lukovnikov , Nilesh Chakraborty , Asja Fischer , Jens Lehmann

Existing pipelined task-oriented dialogue systems usually have difficulties adapting to unseen domains, whereas end-to-end systems are plagued by large-scale knowledge bases in practice. In this paper, we introduce a novel query-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xin Tian , Yingzhan Lin , Mengfei Song , Siqi Bao , Fan Wang , Huang He , Shuqi Sun , Hua Wu

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve correct answers from large-scale knowledge bases. Existing attempts primarily focus on entity representation and final answer reasoning, which results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yong Cao , Xianzhi Li , Huiwen Liu , Wen Dai , Shuai Chen , Bin Wang , Min Chen , Daniel Hershcovich

Translating Natural Language Queries into Structured Query Language (Text-to-SQL or NLQ-to-SQL) is a critical task extensively studied by both the natural language processing and database communities, aimed at providing a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Hasan Alp Caferoğlu , Özgür Ulusoy

This paper presents a principled and scalable framework for systematically generating complex Question Answering (QA) data. In the core of this framework is a graphlet-anchored generation process, where small subgraphs from a Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Richard A. A. Jonker , Bárbara Maria Ribeiro de Abreu Martins , Sérgio Matos

Parsing natural language to corresponding SQL (NL2SQL) with data driven approaches like deep neural networks attracts much attention in recent years. Existing NL2SQL datasets assume that condition values should appear exactly in natural…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ningyuan Sun , Xuefeng Yang , Yunfeng Liu

Knowledge graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, YAGO, Wikidata, and NELL were constructed to store large-scale, real-world facts as (subject, predicate, object) triples -- that can also be modeled as a graph, where a node (a subject or an…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Arijit Khan

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) involves retrieving entities as answers from a Knowledge Graph (KG) using natural language queries. The challenge is to learn to reason over question-relevant KG facts that traverse KG entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Costas Mavromatis , George Karypis

In this paper, we propose a fully automated system to extend knowledge graphs using external information from web-scale corpora. The designed system leverages a deep learning based technology for relation extraction that can be trained by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Sarthak Dash , Michael R. Glass , Alfio Gliozzo , Mustafa Canim

Question answering over Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) remains a challenging task due to the complexity of scholarly content and the intricate structure of these graphs. Large Language Model (LLM) approaches could be used to translate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xueli Pan , Victor de Boer , Jacco van Ossenbruggen

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge graph (KG), which requires multiple steps of reasoning. Existing retrieval-based approaches solve this task by concentrating on the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Li , Chen Zhang , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions using structured knowledge from KBs. While LLM-only approaches offer generalization, they suffer from outdated knowledge, hallucinations, and lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Akiko Aizawa , Hidetoshi Shimodaira