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Semantic parsing solves knowledge base (KB) question answering (KBQA) by composing a KB query, which generally involves node extraction (NE) and graph composition (GC) to detect and connect related nodes in a query. Despite the strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Minhao Zhang , Ruoyu Zhang , Yanzeng Li , Lei Zou

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

We propose a novel method for exploiting the semantic structure of text to answer multiple-choice questions. The approach is especially suitable for domains that require reasoning over a diverse set of linguistic constructs but have limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Daniel Khashabi , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Dan Roth

Users interacting with voice assistants today need to phrase their requests in a very specific manner to elicit an appropriate response. This limits the user experience, and is partly due to the lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yi-Lin Tuan , Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Qiaozi Gao , Alessandra Cervone , William Yang Wang

Machine learning about language can be improved by supplying it with specific knowledge and sources of external information. We present here a new version of the linked open data resource ConceptNet that is particularly well suited to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Robyn Speer , Joshua Chin , Catherine Havasi

Chatbots and AI assistants have claimed their importance in today life. The main reason behind adopting this technology is to connect with the user, understand their requirements, and fulfill them. This has been achieved but at the cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Muhammad Hamzah Mushtaq

With the recent spike in the number and availability of Large Language Models (LLMs), it has become increasingly important to provide large and realistic benchmarks for evaluating Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) systems. So far…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Catherine Kosten , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , Kurt Stockinger

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly propelled the research on semantic parsing. Improvement has since been made in many downstream tasks, including natural language interface to web APIs, text-to-SQL generation, among others.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Vardaan Pahuja , Gong Cheng , Yu Su

Natural language understanding often requires deep semantic knowledge. Expanding on previous proposals, we suggest that some important aspects of semantic knowledge can be modeled as a language model if done at an appropriate level of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Haoruo Peng , Dan Roth

We present a phenomenon-oriented comparative analysis of the two dominant approaches in task-independent semantic parsing: classic, knowledge-intensive and neural, data-intensive models. To reflect state-of-the-art neural NLP technologies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Junjie Cao , Zi Lin , Weiwei Sun , Xiaojun Wan

Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language to logic form. In question answering, semantic parsing can be used to map the question to logic form and execute the logic form to get the answer. One key problem for semantic parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Knowledge graphs represent real-world entities and their relations in a semantically-rich structure supported by ontologies. Exploring this data with machine learning methods often relies on knowledge graph embeddings, which produce latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Rita T. Sousa , Sara Silva , Catia Pesquita

Executable semantic parsing is the task of converting natural language utterances into logical forms that can be directly used as queries to get a response. We build a transfer learning framework for executable semantic parsing. We show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Marco Damonte , Rahul Goel , Tagyoung Chung

Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are large datasets with specific structures representing large knowledge bases (KB) where each node represents a key entity and relations amongst them are typed edges. Natural language queries formed to extract…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Abir Chakraborty

The conversational search paradigm introduces a step change over the traditional search paradigm by allowing users to interact with search agents in a multi-turn and natural fashion. The conversation flows naturally and is usually centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mariana Leite , Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offers significant synergistic potential for knowledge-driven applications. One possible integration is the interpretation and generation of formal languages, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Lars-Peter Meyer , Johannes Frey , Felix Brei , Natanael Arndt

Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

Knowledge models are fundamental to dialogue systems for enabling conversational interactions, which require handling domain-specific knowledge. Ensuring effective communication in information-providing conversations entails aligning user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Phillip Schneider , Nektarios Machner , Kristiina Jokinen , Florian Matthes

Researchers have relegated natural language processing tasks to Transformer-type models, particularly generative models, because these models exhibit high versatility when performing generation and classification tasks. As the size of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Fabio Yáñez-Romero , Andrés Montoyo , Armando Suárez , Yoan Gutiérrez , Ruslan Mitkov