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LLMs' remarkable ability to tackle a wide range of language tasks opened new opportunities for collaborative human-AI problem solving. LLMs can amplify human capabilities by applying their intuitions and reasoning strategies at scale. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Abhishek Sharma , Dan Goldwasser

Recent development of large-scale question answering (QA) datasets triggered a substantial amount of research into end-to-end neural architectures for QA. Increasingly complex systems have been conceived without comparison to simpler neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Dirk Weissenborn , Georg Wiese , Laura Seiffe

Humans tame the complexity of mathematical reasoning by developing hierarchies of abstractions. With proper abstractions, solutions to hard problems can be expressed concisely, thus making them more likely to be found. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zhening Li , Gabriel Poesia , Omar Costilla-Reyes , Noah Goodman , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of large language models (LLM) architectures and strategies for "complex" question-answering with a focus on hybrid architectures. LLM based chatbot services have allowed anyone to grasp the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xavier Daull , Patrice Bellot , Emmanuel Bruno , Vincent Martin , Elisabeth Murisasco

We study a new problem setting of question answering (QA), referred to as DocTabQA. Within this setting, given a long document, the goal is to respond to questions by organizing the answers into structured tables derived directly from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haochen Wang , Kai Hu , Haoyu Dong , Liangcai Gao

The dynamic nature of knowledge in an ever-changing world presents challenges for language models trained on static data; the model in the real world often requires not only acquiring new knowledge but also overwriting outdated information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yujin Kim , Jaehong Yoon , Seonghyeon Ye , Sangmin Bae , Namgyu Ho , Sung Ju Hwang , Se-young Yun

General-purpose robots coexisting with humans in their environment must learn to relate human language to their perceptions and actions to be useful in a range of daily tasks. Moreover, they need to acquire a diverse repertoire of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Erick Rosete-Beas , Wolfram Burgard

Conversational agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming integral to our daily interactions, generating unprecedented amounts of conversational data. Such datasets offer a powerful lens into societal interests,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wentao Zhang , Woojeong Kim , Yuntian Deng

We propose AutoQA, a methodology and toolkit to generate semantic parsers that answer questions on databases, with no manual effort. Given a database schema and its data, AutoQA automatically generates a large set of high-quality questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Silei Xu , Sina J. Semnani , Giovanni Campagna , Monica S. Lam

The task of long-form question answering (LFQA) involves retrieving documents relevant to a given question and using them to generate a paragraph-length answer. While many models have recently been proposed for LFQA, we show in this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kalpesh Krishna , Aurko Roy , Mohit Iyyer

\Ac{LFQA} aims to generate lengthy answers to complex questions. This scenario presents great flexibility as well as significant challenges for evaluation. Most evaluations rely on deterministic metrics that depend on string or n-gram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ning Xian , Yixing Fan , Ruqing Zhang , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo

The impressive advances and applications of large language and joint language-and-visual understanding models has led to an increased need for methods of probing their potential reasoning capabilities. However, the difficulty of gather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nathan Vaska , Victoria Helus

Complex query answering (CQA) on knowledge graphs (KGs) is gaining momentum as a challenging reasoning task. In this paper, we show that the current benchmarks for CQA might not be as complex as we think, as the way they are built distorts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Cosimo Gregucci , Bo Xiong , Daniel Hernandez , Lorenzo Loconte , Pasquale Minervini , Steffen Staab , Antonio Vergari

Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

Tabular data is difficult to analyze and to search through, yielding for new tools and interfaces that would allow even non tech-savvy users to gain insights from open datasets without resorting to specialized data analysis tools or even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Svitlana Vakulenko , Vadim Savenkov

In addition to the traditional task of getting machines to answer questions, a major research question in question answering is to create interesting, challenging questions that can help systems learn how to answer questions and also reveal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Jordan Boyd-Graber , Benjamin Börschinger

Complex knowledge base question answering can be achieved by converting questions into sequences of predefined actions. However, there is a significant semantic and structural gap between natural language and action sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yechun Tang , Xiaoxia Cheng , Weiming Lu

Efficient exploration is essential for intelligent systems interacting with their environment, but existing language models often fall short in scenarios that require strategic information gathering. In this paper, we present Paprika, a…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various NLP tasks, but they still suffer from challenges such as hallucination and weak numerical reasoning. To overcome these challenges, external tools can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Kuan Wang , Haotian Sun , Chao Zhang

Reading comprehension models answer questions posed in natural language when provided with a short passage of text. They present an opportunity to address a long-standing challenge in data management: the extraction of structured data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qiming Wang , Raul Castro Fernandez