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Discrete reasoning over table-text documents (e.g., financial reports) gains increasing attention in recent two years. Existing works mostly simplify this challenge by manually selecting and transforming document pages to structured tables…

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This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

Question-answering (QA) that comes naturally to humans is a critical component in seamless human-computer interaction. It has emerged as one of the most convenient and natural methods to interact with the web and is especially desirable in…

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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

The absence of explicitly tailored, accessible annotated datasets for educational purposes presents a notable obstacle for NLP tasks in languages with limited resources.This study initially explores the feasibility of using machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Hailay Teklehaymanot , Dren Fazlija , Niloy Ganguly , Gourab K. Patro , Wolfgang Nejdl

Real-world tables often exhibit irregular schemas, heterogeneous value formats, and implicit relational structure, which degrade the reliability of downstream table reasoning and question answering. Most existing approaches address these…

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Multi-hop knowledge based question answering (KBQA) is a complex task for natural language understanding. Many KBQA approaches have been proposed in recent years, and most of them are trained based on labeled reasoning path. This hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kechen Qin , Yu Wang , Cheng Li , Kalpa Gunaratna , Hongxia Jin , Virgil Pavlu , Javed A. Aslam

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

This paper describes a novel hierarchical attention network for reading comprehension style question answering, which aims to answer questions for a given narrative paragraph. In the proposed method, attention and fusion are conducted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Wei Wang , Ming Yan , Chen Wu

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

Multimodal multihop question answering (MMQA) requires reasoning over images and text from multiple sources. Despite advances in visual question answering, this multihop setting remains underexplored due to a lack of quality datasets.…

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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

Current temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) methods primarily focus on implicit temporal constraints, lacking the capability of handling more complex temporal queries, and struggle with limited reasoning abilities and error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhaoyan Gong , Juan Li , Zhiqiang Liu , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen , Wen Zhang

Table Question Answering (TQA) aims to answer natural language questions over structured tables. Large Language Models (LLMs) enable promising solutions to this problem, with operator-centric solutions that generate table manipulation…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Fengyu Li , Junhao Zhu , Kaishi Song , Lu Chen , Zhongming Yao , Tianyi Li , Christian S. Jensen

Question answering systems are typically evaluated on factual correctness, yet many real-world applications-such as education and career guidance-require mentorship: responses that provide reflection and guidance. Existing QA benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Parth Bhalerao , Diola Dsouza , Ruiwen Guan , Oana Ignat

Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) has been a popular format for evaluating and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) of modern multimodal language models. Its constrained output format allows for simplified, deterministic automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yesheng Liu , Hao Li , Haiyu Xu , Baoqi Pei , Jiahao Wang , Mingxuan Zhao , Jingshu Zheng , Zheqi He , JG Yao , Bowen Qin , Xi Yang , Jiajun Zhang

Spoken question answering (SQA) systems are critical for digital assistants and other real-world use cases, but evaluating their performance is a challenge due to the importance of human-spoken questions. This study presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yijing Wu , SaiKrishna Rallabandi , Ravisutha Srinivasamurthy , Parag Pravin Dakle , Alolika Gon , Preethi Raghavan

Visual question answering (VQA) has witnessed great progress since May, 2015 as a classic problem unifying visual and textual data into a system. Many enlightening VQA works explore deep into the image and question encodings and fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Yuetan Lin , Zhangyang Pang , Donghui Wang , Yueting Zhuang

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

We consider the problem of better modeling query-cluster interactions to facilitate query focused multi-document summarization (QFS). Due to the lack of training data, existing work relies heavily on retrieval-style methods for estimating…

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