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We introduce \textsc{ComplexTempQA},\footnote{Dataset and code available at: https://github.com/DataScienceUIBK/ComplexTempQA} a large-scale dataset consisting of over 100 million question-answer pairs designed to tackle the challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Raphael Gruber , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Michael Färber , Adam Jatowt

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. Recent work has focused primarily on answering questions given some relevant document or context, and required very little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Herzig , Nicholas Lourie , Jonathan Berant

Prior work has uncovered a set of common problems in state-of-the-art context-based question answering (QA) systems: a lack of attention to the context when the latter conflicts with a model's parametric knowledge, little robustness to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sagi Shaier , Lawrence E Hunter , Katharina von der Wense

Question Answering (QA) is a task in which a machine understands a given document and a question to find an answer. Despite impressive progress in the NLP area, QA is still a challenging problem, especially for non-English languages due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-04 ByungHoon So , Kyuhong Byun , Kyungwon Kang , Seongjin Cho

Harvesting question-answer (QA) pairs from customer service chatlog in the wild is an efficient way to enrich the knowledge base for customer service chatbots in the cold start or continuous integration scenarios. Prior work attempts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Xin Zheng , Tianyu Liu , Haoran Meng , Xu Wang , Yufan Jiang , Mengliang Rao , Binghuai Lin , Zhifang Sui , Yunbo Cao

The ability to understand a user's underlying needs is critical for conversational systems, especially with limited input from users in a conversation. Thus, in such a domain, Asking Clarification Questions (ACQs) to reveal users' true…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hossein A. Rahmani , Xi Wang , Yue Feng , Qiang Zhang , Emine Yilmaz , Aldo Lipani

When Question-Answering (QA) systems are deployed in the real world, users query them through a variety of interfaces, such as speaking to voice assistants, typing questions into a search engine, or even translating questions to languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Abhilasha Ravichander , Siddharth Dalmia , Maria Ryskina , Florian Metze , Eduard Hovy , Alan W Black

In knowledge grounded conversation, domain knowledge plays an important role in a special domain such as Music. The response of knowledge grounded conversation might contain multiple answer entities or no entity at all. Although existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Wenya Zhu , Kaixiang Mo , Yu Zhang , Zhangbin Zhu , Xuezheng Peng , Qiang Yang

End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' conversational performance has largely been overlooked. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Shengpeng Ji , Tianle Liang , Yangzhuo Li , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Jinzheng He , Yifu Chen , Zhengqing Liu , Ziyue Jiang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Jin Xu , Junyang Lin , Zhou Zhao

Answering questions related to the legal domain is a complex task, primarily due to the intricate nature and diverse range of legal document systems. Providing an accurate answer to a legal query typically necessitates specialized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Question Answering (QA) is a challenging topic since it requires tackling the various difficulties of natural language understanding. Since evaluation is important not only for identifying the strong and weak points of the various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Katerina Papantoniou , Yannis Tzitzikas

Many important questions (e.g. "How to eat healthier?") require conversation to establish context and explore in depth. However, conversational question answering (ConvQA) systems have long been stymied by scarce training data that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Zhuyun Dai , Arun Tejasvi Chaganty , Vincent Zhao , Aida Amini , Qazi Mamunur Rashid , Mike Green , Kelvin Guu

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

Question answering (QA) systems are among the most important and rapidly developing research topics in natural language processing (NLP). A reason, therefore, is that a QA system allows humans to interact more naturally with a machine,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Amer Farea , Zhen Yang , Kien Duong , Nadeesha Perera , Frank Emmert-Streib

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task aspires to provide a meaningful testbed for the development of AI models that can jointly reason over visual and natural language inputs. Despite a proliferation of VQA datasets, this goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Dustin Schwenk , Apoorv Khandelwal , Christopher Clark , Kenneth Marino , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Conversational systems enable numerous valuable applications, and question-answering is an important component underlying many of these. However, conversational question-answering remains challenging due to the lack of realistic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jing Gu , Mostafa Mirshekari , Zhou Yu , Aaron Sisto

To enable building and testing models on long-document comprehension, we introduce QuALITY, a multiple-choice QA dataset with context passages in English that have an average length of about 5,000 tokens, much longer than typical current…

In outside knowledge visual question answering (OK-VQA), the model must identify relevant visual information within an image and incorporate external knowledge to accurately respond to a question. Extending this task to a visually grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Benjamin Reichman , Constantin Patsch , Jack Truxal , Atishay Jain , Larry Heck

Composing knowledge from multiple pieces of texts is a key challenge in multi-hop question answering. We present a multi-hop reasoning dataset, Question Answering via Sentence Composition(QASC), that requires retrieving facts from a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Tushar Khot , Peter Clark , Michal Guerquin , Peter Jansen , Ashish Sabharwal

This paper proposes a novel approach to develop an open-domain and long-form Over-The-Top (OTT) Question-Answering (QA) dataset, DragonVerseQA, specifically oriented to the fantasy universe of "House of the Dragon" and "Game Of Thrones" TV…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Aritra Kumar Lahiri , Qinmin Vivian Hu