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In this position paper, we propose a new approach to generating a type of knowledge base (KB) from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wenhu Chen , William W. Cohen , Michiel De Jong , Nitish Gupta , Alessandro Presta , Pat Verga , John Wieting

Question generation from a knowledge base (KB) is the task of generating questions related to the domain of the input KB. We propose a system for generating fluent and natural questions from a KB, which significantly reduces the human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Linfeng Song , Lin Zhao

In this paper, we describe the construction of TeKnowbase, a knowledge-base of technical concepts in computer science. Our main information sources are technical websites such as Webopedia and Techtarget as well as Wikipedia and online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Prajna Upadhyay , Tanuma Patra , Ashwini Purkar , Maya Ramanath

The aim of knowledge base completion is to predict unseen facts from existing facts in knowledge bases. In this work, we introduce the first approach for transfer of knowledge from one collection of facts to another without the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Vid Kocijan , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in understanding and generating responses to complex queries through large-scale pre-training. However, the efficacy of these models in memorizing and reasoning among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Qiyuan He , Yizhong Wang , Wenya Wang

Knowledge bases (KBs) have attracted increasing attention due to its great success in various areas, such as Web and mobile search.Existing KBs are restricted to objective factual knowledge, such as city population or fruit shape,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Rui Meng , Hao Xin , Lei Chen , Yangqiu Song

In real world applications, knowledge graphs (KG) are widely used in various domains (e.g. medical applications and dialogue agents). However, for fact verification, KGs have not been adequately utilized as a knowledge source. KGs can be a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jiho Kim , Sungjin Park , Yeonsu Kwon , Yohan Jo , James Thorne , Edward Choi

Evaluating the factual consistency of automatically generated summaries is essential for the progress and adoption of reliable summarization systems. Despite recent advances, existing factuality evaluation models are not robust, being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shangbin Feng , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yuyang Bai , Yulia Tsvetkov

Many AI applications rely on knowledge about a relevant real-world domain that is encoded by means of some logical knowledge base (KB). The most essential benefit of logical KBs is the opportunity to perform automatic reasoning to derive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Patrick Rodler

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Kezun Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Hanghang Tong , Haixun Wang , Wei Wang

Large language models show human-like performance in knowledge extraction, reasoning and dialogue, but it remains controversial whether this performance is best explained by memorization and pattern matching, or whether it reflects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard , Jonathan Gabel Christiansen , Anders Søgaard

When it comes to factual knowledge about a wide range of domains, Wikipedia is often the prime source of information on the web. DBpedia and YAGO, as large cross-domain knowledge graphs, encode a subset of that knowledge by creating an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Pretrained language models have been suggested as a possible alternative or complement to structured knowledge bases. However, this emerging LM-as-KB paradigm has so far only been considered in a very limited setting, which only allows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Benjamin Heinzerling , Kentaro Inui

Information extraction traditionally focuses on extracting relations between identifiable entities, such as <Monterey, locatedIn, California>. Yet, texts often also contain Counting information, stating that a subject is in a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Paramita Mirza , Simon Razniewski , Fariz Darari , Gerhard Weikum

To cope with the large number of publications, more and more researchers are automatically extracting data of interest using natural language processing methods based on supervised learning. Much data, especially in the natural and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jan Göpfert , Patrick Kuckertz , Jann M. Weinand , Detlef Stolten

Very large commonsense knowledge bases (KBs) often have thousands to millions of axioms, of which relatively few are relevant for answering any given query. A large number of irrelevant axioms can easily overwhelm resolution-based theorem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Abhishek Sharma , Michael Witbrock , Keith Goolsbey

Large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) like Freebase and Wikidata house millions of structured knowledge. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) provides a user-friendly way to access these valuable KBs via asking natural language questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lingxi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yanling Wang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Given a knowledge base or KB containing (noisy) facts about common nouns or generics, such as "all trees produce oxygen" or "some animals live in forests", we consider the problem of inferring additional such facts at a precision similar to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Hanie Sedghi , Ashish Sabharwal

Despite their impressive scale, knowledge bases (KBs), such as Wikidata, still contain significant gaps. Language models (LMs) have been proposed as a source for filling these gaps. However, prior works have focused on prominent entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Lihu Chen , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum

Tables in scientific papers contain a wealth of valuable knowledge for the scientific enterprise. To help the many of us who frequently consult this type of knowledge, we present Tab2Know, a new end-to-end system to build a Knowledge Base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Benno Kruit , Hongyu He , Jacopo Urbani