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Event-Level Video Question Answering (EVQA) requires complex reasoning across video events to obtain the visual information needed to provide optimal answers. However, despite significant progress in model performance, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenyang Lyu , Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Semantic answer type prediction (SMART) is known to be a useful step towards effective question answering (QA) systems. The SMART task involves predicting the top-$k$ knowledge graph (KG) types for a given natural language question. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Vinay Setty

We present the TAPAS contribution to the Shared Task on Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables (SemEval 2021 Task 9, Wang et al. (2021)). SEM TAB FACT Task A is a classification task of recognizing if a statement is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Thomas Müller , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Syrine Krichene

Conversational Information Seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. iKAT emphasizes the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffery Dalton , Leif Azzopardi

SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual and Crosslingual Fact-Checked Claim Retrieval is approached as a Learning-to-Rank task using a bi-encoder model fine-tuned from a pre-trained transformer optimized for sentence similarity. Training used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Pranshu Rastogi

Flowchart Question Answering (FlowchartQA) is a multi-modal task that automatically answers questions conditioned on graphic flowcharts. Current studies convert flowcharts into interlanguages (e.g., Graphviz) for Question Answering (QA),…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xinyu Li , Bowei Zou , Yuchong Chen , Yifan Fan , Yu Hong

Building query graphs from natural language questions is an important step in complex question answering over knowledge graph (Complex KGQA). In general, a question can be correctly answered if its query graph is built correctly and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Mingchen Li , Shihao Ji

Inferring semantic types for entity mentions within text documents is an important asset for many downstream NLP tasks, such as Semantic Role Labelling, Entity Disambiguation, Knowledge Base Question Answering, etc. Prior works have mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sarthak Dash , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Alfio Gliozzo , Mustafa Canim

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code given a natural language query. While related to other information retrieval tasks, it requires bridging the gap between the language used in code (often abbreviated and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hamel Husain , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Tiferet Gazit , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

In this paper, we are interested in developing semantic parsers which understand natural language questions embedded in a conversation with a user and ground them to formal queries over definitions in a general purpose knowledge graph (KG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Parag Jain , Emilio Monti , Mirella Lapata

Concept learning is a form of supervised machine learning that operates on knowledge bases in description logics. State-of-the-art concept learners often rely on an iterative search through a countably infinite concept space. In each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou , Caglar Demir , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Relation detection plays a crucial role in Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) because of the high variance of relation expression in the question. Traditional deep learning methods follow an encoding-comparing paradigm, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Hongzhi Zhang , Guandong Xu , Xiao Liang , Tinglei Huang , Kun fu

In this work, we present our approach for solving the SemEval 2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC). The task is a sentence pair classification problem where the goal is to detect whether a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rohan Gupta , Jay Mundra , Deepak Mahajan , Ashutosh Modi

Deep Semantic Matching is a crucial component in various natural language processing applications such as question and answering (QA), where an input query is compared to each candidate question in a QA corpus in terms of relevance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Changyu Miao , Zhen Cao , Yik-Cheung Tam

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

Web applications rely heavily on hyperlinks to connect disparate information resources. However, the dynamic nature of the web leads to link rot, where targets become unavailable, and more insidiously, semantic drift, where a valid HTTP 200…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Guan-Yan Yang , Wei-Ling Wen , Shu-Yuan Ku , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh

The World Wide Web (WWW) allows the people to share the information (data) from the large database repositories globally. The amount of information grows billions of databases. We need to search the information will specialize tools known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-07 G. Madhu , Dr. A. Govardhan , Dr. T. V. Rajinikanth

Humans explain inter-object relationships with semantic labels that demonstrate a high-level understanding required to perform complex Vision-Language tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, existing VQA models represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Moshiur Farazi , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes

Prior work in standardized science exams requires support from large text corpus, such as targeted science corpus fromWikipedia or SimpleWikipedia. However, retrieving knowledge from the large corpus is time-consuming and questions embedded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao Shi

Information retrieval based knowledge base question answering (KBQA) first retrieves a subgraph to reduce search space, then reasons on the subgraph to select answer entities. Existing approaches have three issues that impede the retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yuanchun Shen