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Accessing knowledge via multilingual natural-language interfaces is one of the emerging challenges in the field of information retrieval and related ones. Structured knowledge stored in knowledge graphs can be queried via a specific query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandr Perevalov , Andreas Both

Question Answering over Knowledge Graph (KGQA) aims to seek answer entities for the natural language question from a large-scale Knowledge Graph~(KG). To better perform reasoning on KG, recent work typically adopts a pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

We propose a new approach for generating SPARQL queries on RDF knowledge graphs from natural language questions or keyword queries, using a large language model. Our approach does not require fine-tuning. Instead, it uses the language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Walter , Hannah Bast

Visual question answering (Visual QA) has attracted significant attention these years. While a variety of algorithms have been proposed, most of them are built upon different combinations of image and language features as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Dong Xuan

Research on open-domain question answering (QA) has a long tradition. A challenge in this domain is answering complex questions (CQA) that require complex inference methods and large amounts of knowledge. In low resource languages, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Romina Etezadi , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

This work deals with the challenge of learning and reasoning over multi-modal multi-hop question answering (QA). We propose a graph reasoning network based on the semantic structure of the sentences to learn multi-source reasoning paths and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Navya Yarrabelly , Saloni Mittal

Knowledge graphs are an efficient method for representing and connecting information across various concepts, useful in reasoning, question answering, and knowledge base completion tasks. They organize data by linking points, enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Saher Mohamed , Kirollos Farah , Abdelrahman Lotfy , Kareem Rizk , Abdelrahman Saeed , Shahenda Mohamed , Ghada Khouriba , Tamer Arafa

Pre-trained Text-to-Text Language Models (LMs), such as T5 or BART yield promising results in the Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) task. However, the capacity of the models is limited and the quality decreases for questions with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mikhail Salnikov , Maria Lysyuk , Pavel Braslavski , Anton Razzhigaev , Valentin Malykh , Alexander Panchenko

Answer selection, which is involved in many natural language processing applications such as dialog systems and question answering (QA), is an important yet challenging task in practice, since conventional methods typically suffer from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yang Deng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Wai Lam , Ying Shen

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

A common thread of open-domain question answering (QA) models employs a retriever-reader pipeline that first retrieves a handful of relevant passages from Wikipedia and then peruses the passages to produce an answer. However, even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mingxuan Ju , Wenhao Yu , Tong Zhao , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Recent progress in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has led to more accurate and interpretable multi-hop question answering (QA). Yet, challenges persist in integrating iterative reasoning steps with external knowledge retrieval. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tengjun Ni , Xin Yuan , Shenghong Li , Kai Wu , Ren Ping Liu , Wei Ni , Wenjie Zhang

Relevance search is to find top-ranked entities in a knowledge graph (KG) that are relevant to a query entity. Relevance is ambiguous, particularly over a schema-rich KG like DBpedia which supports a wide range of different semantics of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tianshuo Zhou , Ziyang Li , Gong Cheng , Jun Wang , Yu'Ang Wei

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) involves retrieving facts from a Knowledge Graph (KG) using natural language queries. A KG is a curated set of facts consisting of entities linked by relations. Certain facts include also temporal…

In conversational question answering, users express their information needs through a series of utterances with incomplete context. Typical ConvQA methods rely on a single source (a knowledge base (KB), or a text corpus, or a set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

This paper tackles the problem of the semantic gap between a document and a query within an ad-hoc information retrieval task. In this context, knowledge bases (KBs) have already been acknowledged as valuable means since they allow the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Gia-Hung Nguyen , Lynda Tamine , Laure Soulier , Nathalie Bricon-Souf

Commonsense question answering is a crucial task that requires machines to employ reasoning according to commonsense. Previous studies predominantly employ an extracting-and-modeling paradigm to harness the information in KG, which first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Boci Peng , Yongchao Liu , Xiaohe Bo , Sheng Tian , Baokun Wang , Chuntao Hong , Yan Zhang

Answering questions over domain-specific graphs requires a tailored approach due to the limited number of relations and the specific nature of the domain. Our approach integrates classic logical programming languages into large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Navid Madani , Rohini K. Srihari , Kenneth Joseph

Direct answering of questions that involve multiple entities and relations is a challenge for text-based QA. This problem is most pronounced when answers can be found only by joining evidence from multiple documents. Curated knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaolu Lu , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Abdalghani Abujabal , Yafang Wang , Gerhard Weikum

The scoring function, which measures the plausibility of triplets in knowledge graphs (KGs), is the key to ensure the excellent performance of KG embedding, and its design is also an important problem in the literature. Automated machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shimin Di , Quanming Yao , Yongqi Zhang , Lei Chen