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Community question-answering (CQA) platforms have become very popular forums for asking and answering questions daily. While these forums are rich repositories of community knowledge, they present challenges for finding relevant answers and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Sorami Hisamoto , Kevin Duh

This paper addresses the problem of determining the best answer in Community-based Question Answering (CQA) websites by focussing on the content. In particular, we present a system, ACQUA [http://acqua.kmi.open.ac.uk], that can be installed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-18 George Gkotsis , Maria Liakata , Carlos Pedrinaci , John Domingue

This work focuses on answering single-relation factoid questions over Freebase. Each question can acquire the answer from a single fact of form (subject, predicate, object) in Freebase. This task, simple question answering (SimpleQA), can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Wenpeng Yin , Mo Yu , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou , Hinrich Schütze

Table retrieval is essential for accessing information stored in structured tabular formats; however, it remains less explored than text retrieval. The content of the table primarily consists of phrases and words, which include a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zheng Fang , Yanan Cao , Dongjie Zhang , Qian Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanbing Liu

With the steady emergence of community question answering (CQA) platforms like Quora, StackExchange, and WikiHow, users now have an unprecedented access to information on various kind of queries and tasks. Moreover, the rapid proliferation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sebastin Santy , Prasanta Bhattacharya , Rishabh Mehrotra

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites can be claimed as the most major venues for knowledge sharing, and the most effective way of exchanging knowledge at present. Considering that massive amount of users are participating online and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Boualem Benatallah , Xiang Zhang

In this paper, we propose a recent and under-researched paradigm for the task of event detection (ED) by casting it as a question-answering (QA) problem with the possibility of multiple answers and the support of entities. The extraction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Emanuela Boros , Jose G. Moreno , Antoine Doucet

This paper introduces TUEF, a topic-oriented user-interaction model for fair Expert Finding in Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms. The Expert Finding task in CQA platforms involves identifying proficient users capable of providing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Maddalena Amendola , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Question answering (QA) aims to understand questions and find appropriate answers. In real-world QA systems, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) based QA is usually a practical and effective solution, especially for some complicated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Yanan Lu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

Online Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms have become indispensable tools for users seeking expert solutions to their technical queries. The effectiveness of these platforms relies on their ability to identify and direct questions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Maddalena Amendola , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Linking entities like people, organizations, books, music groups and their songs in text to knowledge bases (KBs) is a fundamental task for many downstream search and mining applications. Achieving high disambiguation accuracy crucially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jaspreet Singh , Johannes Hoffart , Avishek Anand

Question Answering (QA) systems provide easy access to the vast amount of knowledge without having to know the underlying complex structure of the knowledge. The research community has provided ad hoc solutions to the key QA tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Somayeh Asadifar , Mohsen Kahani , Saeedeh Shekarpour

Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) is a bi-modal task requiring external world knowledge in order to correctly answer a text question and associated image. Recent single modality text work has shown knowledge injection into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh

Modern entity linking systems rely on large collections of documents specifically annotated for the task (e.g., AIDA CoNLL). In contrast, we propose an approach which exploits only naturally occurring information: unlabeled documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Community question answering (CQA) gains increasing popularity in both academy and industry recently. However, the redundancy and lengthiness issues of crowdsourced answers limit the performance of answer selection and lead to reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yang Deng , Wai Lam , Yuexiang Xie , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Ying Shen

The first stage of every knowledge base question answering approach is to link entities in the input question. We investigate entity linking in the context of a question answering task and present a jointly optimized neural architecture for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Daniil Sorokin , Iryna Gurevych

Entity linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Entity linking is an important step towards constructing knowledge graphs that facilitate advanced question answering over scientific documents, including the retrieval of relevant information included in tables within these documents. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Varish Mulwad , Tim Finin , Vijay S. Kumar , Jenny Weisenberg Williams , Sharad Dixit , Anupam Joshi

While there has been substantial progress in text comprehension through simple factoid question answering, more holistic comprehension of a discourse still presents a major challenge (Dunietz et al., 2020). Someone critically reflecting on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wei-Jen Ko , Cutter Dalton , Mark Simmons , Eliza Fisher , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li