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With the development of deep learning techniques and large scale datasets, the question answering (QA) systems have been quickly improved, providing more accurate and satisfying answers. However, current QA systems either focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bingning Wang , Ting Yao , Weipeng Chen , Jingfang Xu , Xiaochuan Wang

Multi-paragraph reasoning is indispensable for open-domain question answering (OpenQA), which receives less attention in the current OpenQA systems. In this work, we propose a knowledge-enhanced graph neural network (KGNN), which performs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Deming Ye , Yankai Lin , Zhenghao Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Visual question answering (VQA) requires systems to perform concept-level reasoning by unifying unstructured (e.g., the context in question and answer; "QA context") and structured (e.g., knowledge graph for the QA context and scene;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yanan Wang , Michihiro Yasunaga , Hongyu Ren , Shinya Wada , Jure Leskovec

We tackle the problem of weakly-supervised conversational Question Answering over large Knowledge Graphs using a neural semantic parsing approach. We introduce a new Logical Form (LF) grammar that can model a wide range of queries on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Pierre Marion , Paweł Krzysztof Nowak , Francesco Piccinno

We present a novel approach to answering sequential questions based on structured objects such as knowledge bases or tables without using a logical form as an intermediate representation. We encode tables as graphs using a graph neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Thomas Müller , Francesco Piccinno , Massimo Nicosia , Peter Shaw , Yasemin Altun

We introduce a new dataset for conversational question answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with verbalized answers. Question answering over KGs is currently focused on answer generation for single-turn questions (KGQA) or multiple-tun…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Endri Kacupaj , Kuldeep Singh , Maria Maleshkova , Jens Lehmann

Large neural language models are steadily contributing state-of-the-art performance to question answering and other natural language and information processing tasks. These models are expensive to train. We propose to evaluate whether such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Fangyi Zhu , Lok You Tan , See-Kiong Ng , Stéphane Bressan

This paper addresses the task of (complex) conversational question answering over a knowledge graph. For this task, we propose LASAGNE (muLti-task semAntic parSing with trAnsformer and Graph atteNtion nEtworks). It is the first approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Endri Kacupaj , Joan Plepi , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Jens Lehmann , Maria Maleshkova

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

This study addresses the challenge of ambiguity in knowledge graph question answering (KGQA). While recent KGQA systems have made significant progress, particularly with the integration of large language models (LLMs), they typically assume…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Liqiang Wen , Guanming Xiong , Tong Mo , Bing Li , Weiping Li , Wen Zhao

While conversing with chatbots, humans typically tend to ask many questions, a significant portion of which can be answered by referring to large-scale knowledge graphs (KG). While Question Answering (QA) and dialog systems have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Amrita Saha , Vardaan Pahuja , Mitesh M. Khapra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Sarath Chandar

Question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA) has evolved from simple single-fact questions to complex questions that require graph traversal and aggregation. We propose a novel approach for complex KGQA that uses unsupervised message…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Javier David Fernandez Garcia , Axel Polleres , Maarten de Rijke , Michael Cochez

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge graph (KG), which requires multiple steps of reasoning. Existing retrieval-based approaches solve this task by concentrating on the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Li , Chen Zhang , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

In this paper we consider the task of conversational semantic parsing over general purpose knowledge graphs (KGs) with millions of entities, and thousands of relation-types. We focus on models which are capable of interactively mapping user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Parag Jain , Mirella Lapata

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to answer user-questions from a knowledge graph (KG) by identifying the reasoning relations between topic entity and answer. As a complex branch task of KGQA, multi-hop KGQA requires reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Weiqiang Jin , Biao Zhao , Hang Yu , Xi Tao , Ruiping Yin , Guizhong Liu

The increasing reliance on digital information necessitates advancements in conversational search systems, particularly in terms of information transparency. While prior research in conversational information-seeking has concentrated on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weronika Łajewska , Damiano Spina , Johanne Trippas , Krisztian Balog

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conversational assistants necessitates dynamic, scalable, and configurable conversational datasets for training and evaluation. These datasets must accommodate diverse user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ronak Pradeep , Daniel Lee , Ali Mousavi , Jeff Pound , Yisi Sang , Jimmy Lin , Ihab Ilyas , Saloni Potdar , Mostafa Arefiyan , Yunyao Li

Text-based question answering (TBQA) has been studied extensively in recent years. Most existing approaches focus on finding the answer to a question within a single paragraph. However, many difficult questions require multiple supporting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yunxuan Xiao , Yanru Qu , Lin Qiu , Hao Zhou , Lei Li , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Question answering has emerged as an intuitive way of querying structured data sources, and has attracted significant advancements over the years. In this article, we provide an overview over these recent advancements, focusing on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Nilesh Chakraborty , Denis Lukovnikov , Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Recently, significant attention has been given to the idea of viewing relational databases as heterogeneous graphs, enabling the application of graph neural network (GNN) technology for predictive tasks. However, existing GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Francesco Ferrini , Antonio Longa , Andrea Passerini , Manfred Jaeger