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We present a novel multimodal interpretable VQA model that can answer the question more accurately and generate diverse explanations. Although researchers have proposed several methods that can generate human-readable and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 He Zhu , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely used for question answering (QA) applications, especially the entity based QA. However, searching an-swers from an entire large-scale knowledge graph is very time-consuming and it is hard to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shuangyong Song

Pre-trained sequence-to-sequence language models have led to widespread success in many natural language generation tasks. However, there has been relatively less work on analyzing their ability to generate structured outputs such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Swarnadeep Saha , Prateek Yadav , Mohit Bansal

Recent years have witnessed much interest in temporal reasoning over knowledge graphs (KG) for complex question answering (QA), but there remains a substantial gap in human capabilities. We explore how to generalize relational graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Aditya Sharma , Apoorv Saxena , Chitrank Gupta , Seyed Mehran Kazemi , Partha Talukdar , Soumen Chakrabarti

Explainable recommendation is an important task. Many methods have been proposed which generate explanations from the content and reviews written for items. When review text is unavailable, generating explanations is still a hard problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Rose Catherine , Kathryn Mazaitis , Maxine Eskenazi , William Cohen

Recent QA with logical reasoning questions requires passage-level relations among the sentences. However, current approaches still focus on sentence-level relations interacting among tokens. In this work, we explore aggregating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yinya Huang , Meng Fang , Yu Cao , Liwei Wang , Xiaodan Liang

Existing question answering datasets focus on dealing with homogeneous information, based either only on text or KB/Table information alone. However, as human knowledge is distributed over heterogeneous forms, using homogeneous information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Zhiyu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Hong Wang , William Wang

We propose GHR-VQA, Graph-guided Hierarchical Relational Reasoning for Video Question Answering (Video QA), a novel human-centric framework that incorporates scene graphs to capture intricate human-object interactions within video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Dionysia Danai Brilli , Dimitrios Mallis , Vassilis Pitsikalis , Petros Maragos

Long document question answering is a challenging task due to its demands for complex reasoning over long text. Previous works usually take long documents as non-structured flat texts or only consider the local structure in long documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yuxiang Nie , Heyan Huang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao

Neural methods for Complex Query Answering (CQA) over knowledge graphs (KGs) are widely believed to learn patterns that generalize beyond explicit graph structure, allowing them to infer answers that are unreachable through symbolic query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yannick Brunink , Daniel Daza , Yunjie He , Michael Cochez

Question answering (QA) over text passages is a problem of long-standing interest in information retrieval. Recently, the conversational setting has attracted attention, where a user asks a sequence of questions to satisfy her information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Magdalena Kaiser , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Question answering over mixed sources, like text and tables, has been advanced by verbalizing all contents and encoding it with a language model. A prominent case of such heterogeneous data is personal information: user devices log vast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Philipp Christmann , Gerhard Weikum

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are foundational structures in many AI applications, representing entities and their interrelations through triples. However, triple-based KGs lack the contextual information of relational knowledge, like temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chengjin Xu , Muzhi Li , Cehao Yang , Xuhui Jiang , Lumingyuan Tang , Yiyan Qi , Jian Guo

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances language models by grounding responses in external information, yet explainability remains a critical challenge, particularly when retrieval relies on unstructured text. Knowledge graphs (KGs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Georgios Balanos , Evangelos Chasanis , Konstantinos Skianis , Evaggelia Pitoura

Given an image and an associated textual question, the purpose of Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) is to provide a correct answer to the question with the aid of external knowledge bases. Prior KB-VQA models are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jingru Gan , Xinzhe Han , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing data with graph structures. The wide adoption in numerous applications underscores the value of these models. However, the complexity of these methods often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tien Cuong Bui

Infographics are documents designed to effectively communicate information using a combination of textual, graphical and visual elements. In this work, we explore the automatic understanding of infographic images by using Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Minesh Mathew , Viraj Bagal , Rubèn Pérez Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny , C. V Jawahar

This paper presents a novel approach based on semantic parsing to improve the performance of Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). Specifically, we focus on how to select an optimal query graph from a candidate set so as to retrieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yonghui Jia , Wenliang Chen

We study open-domain question answering with structured, unstructured and semi-structured knowledge sources, including text, tables, lists and knowledge bases. Departing from prior work, we propose a unifying approach that homogenizes all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Barlas Oguz , Xilun Chen , Vladimir Karpukhin , Stan Peshterliev , Dmytro Okhonko , Michael Schlichtkrull , Sonal Gupta , Yashar Mehdad , Scott Yih

While diverse question answering (QA) datasets have been proposed and contributed significantly to the development of deep learning models for QA tasks, the existing datasets fall short in two aspects. First, we lack QA datasets covering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Sicheng Yu , Shuohang Wang , Yang Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim