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Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer user questions in natural language using rich human knowledge stored in large KBs. As current KBQA methods struggle with unseen knowledge base elements at test time,we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shengxiang Gao , Jey Han Lau , Jianzhong Qi

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

Knowledge-based question answering (KBQA) is widely used in many scenarios that necessitate domain knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) bring opportunities to KBQA, while their costs are significantly higher and absence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Junnan Dong , Qinggang Zhang , Chuang Zhou , Hao Chen , Daochen Zha , Xiao Huang

Knowledge-based Vision Question Answering (KB-VQA) systems address complex visual-grounded questions with knowledge retrieved from external knowledge bases. The tasks of knowledge retrieval and answer generation tasks both necessitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiaqi Deng , Kaize Shi , Zonghan Wu , Huan Huo , Dingxian Wang , Guandong Xu

Most existing approaches for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) focus on a specific underlying knowledge base either because of inherent assumptions in the approach, or because evaluating it on a different knowledge base requires…

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

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on facts in knowledge bases. A typical approach to KBQA is semantic parsing, which translates a question into an executable logical form in a formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jinxin Liu , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Tingjian Zhang , Lunyiu Nie , Linmei Hu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer factoid questions based on knowledge bases. However, generating the most appropriate knowledge base query code based on Natural Language Questions (NLQ) poses a significant challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yunlong Chen , Yaming Zhang , Jianfei Yu , Li Yang , Rui Xia

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Recently, a large number of studies focus on semantically or syntactically complicated questions. In this paper, we elaborately summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yunshi Lan , Gaole He , Jinhao Jiang , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

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) 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

Relation detection is a core component for many NLP applications including Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). In this paper, we propose a hierarchical recurrent neural network enhanced by residual learning that detects KB relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Mo Yu , Wenpeng Yin , Kazi Saidul Hasan , Cicero dos Santos , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

KBQA is a task that requires to answer questions by using semantic structured information in knowledge base. Previous work in this area has been restricted due to the lack of large semantic parsing dataset and the exponential growth of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Meihao Fan , Lei Zhang , Siyao Xiao , Yuru Liang

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to answer user-questions from a knowledge graph (KG) by identifying the reasoning relations between topic entity and answer. As a complex branch task of KGQA, multi-hop KGQA requires reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Weiqiang Jin , Biao Zhao , Hang Yu , Xi Tao , Ruiping Yin , Guizhong Liu

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multiple scenarios. However, KBQA remains challenging, especially regarding coverage and generalization settings. This is due to two main factors: i) understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yiheng Shu , Zhiwei Yu , Yuhan Li , Börje F. Karlsson , Tingting Ma , Yuzhong Qu , Chin-Yew Lin

Review-based Product Question Answering (PQA) allows e-commerce platforms to automatically address customer queries by leveraging insights from user reviews. However, existing PQA systems generate answers with only a single perspective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Zhuang Li

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

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions with a large-scale structured knowledge base (KB). Despite advancements with large language models (LLMs), KBQA still faces challenges in weak KB awareness,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haoran Luo , Haihong E , Yikai Guo , Qika Lin , Xiaobao Wu , Xinyu Mu , Wenhao Liu , Meina Song , Yifan Zhu , Luu Anh Tuan

Knowledge-based question answering (KBQA) is a key task in NLP research, and also an approach to access the web data and knowledge, which requires exploiting knowledge graphs (KGs) for reasoning. In the literature, one promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xin Lin , Tianhuang Su , Zhenya Huang , Shangzi Xue , Haifeng Liu , Enhong Chen

This paper presents a novel approach based on semantic parsing to improve the performance of Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). Specifically, we focus on how to select an optimal query graph from a candidate set so as to retrieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yonghui Jia , Wenliang Chen