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Table Question Answering (Table QA) refers to providing precise answers from tables to answer a user's question. In recent years, there have been a lot of works on table QA, but there is a lack of comprehensive surveys on this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Nengzheng Jin , Joanna Siebert , Dongfang Li , Qingcai Chen

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBs) aims to answer natural language questions with factual information such as entities and relations in KBs. Previous methods either generate logical forms that can be executed over KBs to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Donghan Yu , Sheng Zhang , Patrick Ng , Henghui Zhu , Alexander Hanbo Li , Jun Wang , Yiqun Hu , William Wang , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

Many algorithms for Knowledge-Based Question Answering (KBQA) depend on semantic parsing, which translates a question to its logical form. When only weak supervision is provided, it is usually necessary to search valid logical forms for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Tao Shen , Xiubo Geng , Tao Qin , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Daxin Jiang

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, especially for complex questions which require multiple facts to answer. Question decomposition is a promising way to answer complex questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Xiang Huang , Sitao Cheng , Yiheng Shu , Yuheng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

The Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) task aims to answer natural language questions based on a given knowledge base. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in language understanding and can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yantao Liu , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Yucan Guo , Long Bai , Saiping Guan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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

Existing studies on question answering on knowledge bases (KBQA) mainly operate with the standard i.i.d assumption, i.e., training distribution over questions is the same as the test distribution. However, i.i.d may be neither reasonably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yu Gu , Sue Kase , Michelle Vanni , Brian Sadler , Percy Liang , Xifeng Yan , Yu Su

Complex question-answering (CQA) involves answering complex natural-language questions on a knowledge base (KB). However, the conventional neural program induction (NPI) approach exhibits uneven performance when the questions have different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Tongtong Wu

Automatic Question Answering (QA) has been successfully applied in various domains such as search engines and chatbots. Biomedical QA (BQA), as an emerging QA task, enables innovative applications to effectively perceive, access and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Qiao Jin , Zheng Yuan , Guangzhi Xiong , Qianlan Yu , Huaiyuan Ying , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Songfang Huang , Xiaozhong Liu , Sheng Yu

Existing question answering methods infer answers either from a knowledge base or from raw text. While knowledge base (KB) methods are good at answering compositional questions, their performance is often affected by the incompleteness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Siva Reddy , Andrew McCallum

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions with the help of an external knowledge base. The core idea is to find the link between the internal knowledge behind questions and known triples of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hanyu Zhao , Sha Yuan , Jiahong Leng , Xiang Pan , Guoqiang Wang , Ledell Wu , Jie Tang

The deductive closure of an ideal knowledge base (KB) contains exactly the logical queries that the KB can answer. However, in practice KBs are both incomplete and over-specified, failing to answer some queries that have real-world answers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Haitian Sun , Andrew O. Arnold , Tania Bedrax-Weiss , Fernando Pereira , William W. Cohen

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

Answering complex questions is a time-consuming activity for humans that requires reasoning and integration of information. Recent work on reading comprehension made headway in answering simple questions, but tackling complex questions is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Berant

Space agencies execute complex satellite operations that need to be supported by the technical knowledge contained in their extensive information systems. Knowledge bases (KB) are an effective way of storing and accessing such information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Paul Darm , Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Shay B. Cohen , Annalisa Riccardi

Semantic parsing solves knowledge base (KB) question answering (KBQA) by composing a KB query, which generally involves node extraction (NE) and graph composition (GC) to detect and connect related nodes in a query. Despite the strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Minhao Zhang , Ruoyu Zhang , Yanzeng Li , Lei Zou

General-purpose knowledge bases (KBs) are a cornerstone of knowledge-centric AI. Many of them are constructed pragmatically from Web sources, and are thus far from complete. This poses challenges for the consumption as well as the curation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Simon Razniewski , Hiba Arnaout , Shrestha Ghosh , Fabian Suchanek

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) systems have the goal of answering complex natural language questions by reasoning over relevant facts retrieved from Knowledge Bases (KB). One of the major challenges faced by these systems is their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nithish Kannen , Udit Sharma , Sumit Neelam , Dinesh Khandelwal , Shajith Ikbal , Hima Karanam , L Venkata Subramaniam

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many natural language processing tasks but often exhibit factual inconsistencies in knowledge-intensive settings. Integrating external knowledge resources, particularly knowledge graphs (KGs), provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shuai Wang , Yinan Yu

With the rise of knowledge graph (KG), question answering over knowledge base (KBQA) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Despite much research has been conducted on this topic, it is still challenging to apply KBQA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Feng-Lin Li , Weijia Chen , Qi Huang , Yikun Guo