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Question Answering (QA) is a growing area of research, often used to facilitate the extraction of information from within documents. State-of-the-art QA models are usually pre-trained on domain-general corpora like Wikipedia and thus tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Matthew Maufe , James Ravenscroft , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

This paper explores domain adaptation for enabling question answering (QA) systems to answer questions posed against documents in new specialized domains. Current QA systems using deep neural network (DNN) technology have proven effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Timothy J. Hazen , Shehzaad Dhuliawala , Daniel Boies

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

Keyword search against structured databases has become a popular topic of investigation, since many users find structured queries too hard to express, and enjoy the freedom of a ``Google-like'' query box into which search terms can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Arnab Nandi , H V Jagadish

Recent success of deep learning models for the task of extractive Question Answering (QA) is hinged on the availability of large annotated corpora. However, large domain specific annotated corpora are limited and expensive to construct. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Bhuwan Dhingra , Danish Pruthi , Dheeraj Rajagopal

Question generation (QG) is a natural language generation task where a model is trained to ask questions corresponding to some input text. Most recent approaches frame QG as a sequence-to-sequence problem and rely on additional features and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Luis Enrico Lopez , Diane Kathryn Cruz , Jan Christian Blaise Cruz , Charibeth Cheng

Question Answering (QA) is one of the most important natural language processing (NLP) tasks. It aims using NLP technologies to generate a corresponding answer to a given question based on the massive unstructured corpus. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zhen Wang

Question answering (QA) has become an important application in the advanced development of large language models. General pre-trained large language models for question-answering are not trained to properly understand the knowledge or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sanat Sharma , David Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Dewang Sultania , Karishma Bagga , Mengjiao Zhang , Trung Bui , Varun Kotte

Open-domain question answering (QA) aims to find the answer to a question from a large collection of documents.Though many models for single-document machine comprehension have achieved strong performance, there is still much room for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mantong Zhou , Zhouxing Shi , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

In this document I present an approach to answer validation and reranking for question answering (QA) systems. A cased-based reasoning (CBR) system judges answer candidates for questions from annotated answer candidates for earlier…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Karl-Heinz Weis

This paper proposes a novel architecture to generate multi-hop answers to open domain questions that require information from texts and tables, using the Open Table-and-Text Question Answering dataset for validation and training. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Marcos M. José , Flávio N. Cação , Maria F. Ribeiro , Rafael M. Cheang , Paulo Pirozelli , Fabio G. Cozman

Retrieval-augmented question-answering systems combine retrieval techniques with large language models to provide answers that are more accurate and informative. Many existing toolkits allow users to quickly build such systems using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiao Yu , Yunan Lu , Zhou Yu

Human mind is the palace of curious questions that seek answers. Computational resolution of this challenge is possible through Natural Language Processing techniques. Statistical techniques like machine learning and deep learning require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Pragya Katyayan , Nisheeth Joshi

Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-the-art methods do not achieve optimal results, therefore,…

This work presents a novel architecture for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to improve Question Answering (QA) tasks from a target corpus. Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the analyzing and generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Binita Saha , Utsha Saha , Muhammad Zubair Malik

Question answering (QA) extracting answers from text to the given question in natural language, has been actively studied and existing models have shown a promise of outperforming human performance when trained and evaluated with SQuAD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Gyeongbok Lee , Sungdong Kim , Seung-won Hwang

Question Answering is a task which requires building models capable of providing answers to questions expressed in human language. Full question answering involves some form of reasoning ability. We introduce a neural network architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Andrea Madotto , Giuseppe Attardi

We introduce the novel task of answering entity-seeking recommendation questions using a collection of reviews that describe candidate answer entities. We harvest a QA dataset that contains 47,124 paragraph-sized real user questions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Danish Contractor , Krunal Shah , Aditi Partap , Mausam , Parag Singla

This paper presents TableQuery, a novel tool for querying tabular data using deep learning models pre-trained to answer questions on free text. Existing deep learning methods for question answering on tabular data have various limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abhijith Neil Abraham , Fariz Rahman , Damanpreet Kaur

In open question answering (QA), the answer to a question is produced by retrieving and then analyzing documents that might contain answers to the question. Most open QA systems have considered only retrieving information from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Wenhu Chen , Ming-Wei Chang , Eva Schlinger , William Wang , William W. Cohen