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To cope with the intractability of answering Conjunctive Queries (CQs) and solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), several notions of hypergraph decompositions have been proposed -- giving rise to different notions of width,…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Wolfgang Fischl , Georg Gottlob , Davide M. Longo , Reinhard Pichler

Question answering (QA) over knowledge bases (KBs) is challenging because of the diverse, essentially unbounded, types of reasoning patterns needed. However, we hypothesize in a large KB, reasoning patterns required to answer a query type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajarshi Das , Ameya Godbole , Ankita Naik , Elliot Tower , Robin Jia , Manzil Zaheer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum

To cope with the intractability of answering Conjunctive Queries (CQs) and solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), several notions of hypergraph decompositions have been proposed -- giving rise to different notions of width,…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Wolfgang Fischl , Georg Gottlob , Davide Mario Longo , Reinhard Pichler

The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a unique opportunity to reinvigorate research on Knowledge Engineering (KE) automation. This trend is already evident in recent efforts developing LLM-based methods and tools for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anna Sofia Lippolis , Minh Davide Ragagni , Paolo Ciancarini , Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese , Valentina Presutti

Do question answering (QA) modeling improvements (e.g., choice of architecture and training procedure) hold consistently across the diverse landscape of QA benchmarks? To study this question, we introduce the notion of concurrence -- two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nelson F. Liu , Tony Lee , Robin Jia , Percy Liang

Can language models (LM) ground question-answering (QA) tasks in the knowledge base via inherent relational reasoning ability? While previous models that use only LMs have seen some success on many QA tasks, more recent methods include…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yujie Lu , Siqi Ouyang , Kairui Zhou

The task of Critical Questions Generation (CQs-Gen) aims to foster critical thinking by enabling systems to generate questions that expose underlying assumptions and challenge the validity of argumentative reasoning structures. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Banca Calvo Figueras , Rodrigo Agerri

Text-to-chart retrieval, enabling users to find relevant charts via natural language queries, has gained significant attention. However, evaluating models in real-world business intelligence (BI) scenarios is challenging, as current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yifan Wu , Lutao Yan , Yizhang Zhu , Yenchi Tseng , Yinan Mei , Yong Wang , Jiannan Wang , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) has garnered increasing recognition for its potential to enhance large language models (LLMs) by structurally organizing domain-specific corpora and facilitating complex reasoning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yilin Xiao , Junnan Dong , Chuang Zhou , Su Dong , Qian-wen Zhang , Di Yin , Xing Sun , Xiao Huang

Large, heterogeneous datasets are characterized by missing or even erroneous information. This is more evident when they are the product of community effort or automatic fact extraction methods from external sources, such as text. A special…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ruud van Bakel , Teodor Aleksiev , Daniel Daza , Dimitrios Alivanistos , Michael Cochez

With the growing number and size of Linked Data datasets, it is crucial to make the data accessible and useful for users without knowledge of formal query languages. Two approaches towards this goal are knowledge graph visualization and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Dmitry Pavlov , Yury Emelyanov , Alexey Morozov

Knowledge graph (KG) is known to be helpful for the task of question answering (QA), since it provides well-structured relational information between entities, and allows one to further infer indirect facts. However, it is challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Zornitsa Kozareva , Alexander J. Smola , Le Song

Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) is an increasingly explored approach for combining the reasoning capabilities of large language models with the structured evidence of knowledge graphs. However, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dongzhuoran Zhou , Yuqicheng Zhu , Xiaxia Wang , Hongkuan Zhou , Yuan He , Jiaoyan Chen , Steffen Staab , Evgeny Kharlamov

Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic operations. They also commonly refer to visual features of a chart in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ahmed Masry , Do Xuan Long , Jia Qing Tan , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

The AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), a new benchmark dataset for question answering (QA) has been recently released. ARC only contains natural science questions authored for human exams, which are hard to answer and require advanced logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Kamil Toraman , Le Song

Knowledge graph based simple question answering (KBSQA) is a major area of research within question answering. Although only dealing with simple questions, i.e., questions that can be answered through a single knowledge base (KB) fact, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wenbo Zhao , Tagyoung Chung , Anuj Goyal , Angeliki Metallinou

While AI systems have made remarkable progress in processing unstructured text, structured data such as graphs stored in databases, continues to grow rapidly yet remains difficult for neural models to effectively utilize. We introduce…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yufei Li , Yisen Gao , Jiaxin Bai , Jiaxuan Xiong , Haoyu Huang , Zhongwei Xie , Hong Ting Tsang , Yangqiu Song

Understanding research papers remains challenging for foundation models due to specialized scientific discourse and complex figures and tables, yet existing benchmarks offer limited fine-grained evaluation at scale. To address this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yelin Chen , Fanjin Zhang , Suping Sun , Yunhe Pang , Yuanchun Wang , Jian Song , Xiaoyan Li , Lei Hou , Shu Zhao , Jie Tang , Juanzi Li

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that has received increasing attention from both the computer vision and the natural language processing communities. Given an image and a question in natural language, it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at recognizing individual visual elements and reasoning over simple linear diagrams. However, when faced with complex topological structures involving branching paths, converging flows, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Qiang Xu , Shengyuan Bai , Yu Wang , He Cao , Leqing Chen , Yuanyuan Liu , Bin Feng , Zijing Liu , Yu Li