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The intelligent question answering (IQA) system can accurately capture users' search intention by understanding the natural language questions, searching relevant content efficiently from a massive knowledge-base, and returning the answer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yachen Tang , Haiyun Han , Xianmao Yu , Jing Zhao , Guangyi Liu , Longfei Wei

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs) on the web, how to take full advantage of them becomes increasingly important. Knowledge base-based question answering (KB-QA) is one of the most promising approaches to access the substantial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Yuanzhe Zhang , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Guoliang Ji , Zhanyi Liu , Hua Wu , Jun Zhao

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

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

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

Natural language question answering over knowledge graphs is an important and interesting task as it enables common users to gain accurate answers in an easy and intuitive manner. However, it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Weiguo Zheng , Mei Zhang

Question Answering (QA) over Knowledge Base (KB) aims to automatically answer natural language questions via well-structured relation information between entities stored in knowledge bases. In order to make KBQA more applicable in actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bin Fu , Yunqi Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Yang Li , Haiyang Yu , Jian Sun

Given an image and an associated textual question, the purpose of Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) is to provide a correct answer to the question with the aid of external knowledge bases. Prior KB-VQA models are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jingru Gan , Xinzhe Han , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

In Textual question answering (TQA) systems, complex questions often require retrieving multiple textual fact chains with multiple reasoning steps. While existing benchmarks are limited to single-chain or single-hop retrieval scenarios. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Minjun Zhu , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

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

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of knowledge graphs that can be only queried by experts. However, describing questions using structured queries is not straightforward for non-expert users who need to have sufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Abdelghny Orogat , Isabelle Liu , Ahmed El-Roby

Incorporating multiple knowledge sources is proven to be beneficial for answering complex factoid questions. To utilize multiple knowledge bases (KB), previous works merge all KBs into a single graph via entity alignment and reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Minhao Zhang , Yongliang Ma , Yanzeng Li , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Zou , Ming Zhou

The goal of Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGQA) is to find answers for natural language questions over a knowledge graph. Recent KGQA approaches adopt a neural machine translation (NMT) approach, where the natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Daniel Diomedi , Aidan Hogan

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) has been a long-standing field to answer questions based on knowledge bases. Recently, the evolving dynamics of knowledge have attracted a growing interest in Temporal Knowledge Graph Question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Miao Su , Zixuan Li , Zhuo Chen , Long Bai , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo

Semantic parsing transforms a natural language question into a formal query over a knowledge base. Many existing methods rely on syntactic parsing like dependencies. However, the accuracy of producing such expressive formalisms is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yawei Sun , Lingling Zhang , Gong Cheng , Yuzhong Qu

We present a question answering system over DBpedia, filling the gap between user information needs expressed in natural language and a structured query interface expressed in SPARQL over the underlying knowledge base (KB). Given the KB,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Chenhao Zhu , Kan Ren , Xuan Liu , Haofen Wang , Yiding Tian , Yong Yu

Knowledge graphs contain informative factual knowledge but are considered incomplete. To answer complex queries under incomplete knowledge, learning-based Complex Query Answering (CQA) models are proposed to directly learn from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Hang Yin , Zihao Wang , Yangqiu Song

Question answering on knowledge bases (KBQA) poses a unique challenge for semantic parsing research due to two intertwined challenges: large search space and ambiguities in schema linking. Conventional ranking-based KBQA models, which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Yu Su

Complex Query Answering (CQA) is a crucial reasoning task over Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which aims to answer first-order logical queries from incomplete KGs. While existing neural-symbolic methods achieve strong performance, they face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weizhi Fei , Zihao Wang , hang Yin , Shukai Zhao , Wei Zhang , Yangqiu Song

We aim to provide table answers to keyword queries against knowledge bases. For queries referring to multiple entities, like "Washington cities population" and "Mel Gibson movies", it is better to represent each relevant answer as a table…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Mohan Yang , Bolin Ding , Surajit Chaudhuri , Kaushik Chakrabarti