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With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs), question answering over knowledge base, a.k.a. KBQA has drawn huge attention in recent years. Most of the existing KBQA methods follow so called encoder-compare framework. They map the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yingqi Qu , Jie Liu , Liangyi Kang , Qinfeng Shi , Dan Ye

Visual question answering (VQA) has witnessed great progress since May, 2015 as a classic problem unifying visual and textual data into a system. Many enlightening VQA works explore deep into the image and question encodings and fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Yuetan Lin , Zhangyang Pang , Donghui Wang , Yueting Zhuang

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs) on the web, how to take full advantage of them becomes increasingly important. Knowledge base-based question answering (KB-QA) is one of the most promising approaches to access the substantial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Yuanzhe Zhang , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Guoliang Ji , Zhanyi Liu , Hua Wu , Jun Zhao

While neural models have been shown to exhibit strong performance on single-turn visual question answering (VQA) tasks, extending VQA to a multi-turn, conversational setting remains a challenge. One way to address this challenge is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Muhammad A. Shah , Shikib Mehri , Tejas Srinivasan

Question answering biases in video QA datasets can mislead multimodal model to overfit to QA artifacts and jeopardize the model's ability to generalize. Understanding how strong these QA biases are and where they come from helps the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Jianing Yang , Yuying Zhu , Yongxin Wang , Ruitao Yi , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

An essential task of most Question Answering (QA) systems is to re-rank the set of answer candidates, i.e., Answer Sentence Selection (A2S). These candidates are typically sentences either extracted from one or more documents preserving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Daniele Bonadiman , Alessandro Moschitti

Building a deep learning model for a Question-Answering (QA) task requires a lot of human effort, it may need several months to carefully tune various model architectures and find a best one. It's even harder to find different excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sinan Tan , Hui Xue , Qiyu Ren , Huaping Liu , Jing Bai

Video Question Answering is a challenging problem in visual information retrieval, which provides the answer to the referenced video content according to the question. However, the existing visual question answering approaches mainly tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yunan Ye , Zhou Zhao , Yimeng Li , Long Chen , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

As conversational multimodal AI tools are increasingly adopted to process patient data for health assessment, robust benchmarks are needed to measure progress and expose failure modes under realistic conditions. Despite the importance of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Gaia A. Bertolino , Yuwei Zhang , Tong Xia , Domenico Talia , Cecilia Mascolo

Attention mechanisms are ubiquitous components in neural architectures applied to natural language processing. In addition to yielding gains in predictive accuracy, attention weights are often claimed to confer interpretability, purportedly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Danish Pruthi , Mansi Gupta , Bhuwan Dhingra , Graham Neubig , Zachary C. Lipton

Deep learning methods that extract answers for non-factoid questions from QA sites are seen as critical since they can assist users in reaching their next decisions through conversations with AI systems. The current methods, however, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Makoto Nakatsuji

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj

Long-term Action Quality Assessment (AQA) evaluates the execution of activities in videos. However, the length presents challenges in fine-grained interpretability, with current AQA methods typically producing a single score by averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xu Dong , Xinran Liu , Wanqing Li , Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye , Andrew Gilbert

Document-based question answering (QA) increasingly includes abstract questions that require synthesizing scattered information from long documents or across multiple documents into coherent answers. However, this setting is still poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shu Wang , Shansong Zhou , Xinyang Wang , Shiwei Wang , Hulong Wu , Yixiang Fang

Context-based question answering (CBQA) models provide more accurate and relevant answers by considering the contextual information. They effectively extract specific information given a context, making them functional in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Muhammad Muneeb , David B. Ascher , Ahsan Baidar Bakht

Prior benchmarks have analyzed models' answers to questions about videos in order to measure visual compositional reasoning. Action Genome Question Answering (AGQA) is one such benchmark. AGQA provides a training/test split with balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Ranjay Krishna , Maneesh Agrawala

Conversational Question Answering is a challenging task since it requires understanding of conversational history. In this project, we propose a new system RoBERTa + AT +KD, which involves rationale tagging multi-task, adversarial training,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ying Ju , Fubang Zhao , Shijie Chen , Bowen Zheng , Xuefeng Yang , Yunfeng Liu

Existing attention mechanisms either attend to local image grid or object level features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Motivated by the observation that questions can relate to both object instances and their parts, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan

Textbook Question Answering (TQA) is a complex multimodal task to infer answers given large context descriptions and abundant diagrams. Compared with Visual Question Answering (VQA), TQA contains a large number of uncommon terminologies and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fangzhi Xu , Qika Lin , Jun Liu , Lingling Zhang , Tianzhe Zhao , Qi Chai , Yudai Pan

In the area of community question answering (CQA), answer selection and answer ranking are two tasks which are applied to help users quickly access valuable answers. Existing solutions mainly exploit the syntactic or semantic correlation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Binbin Jin , Enhong Chen , Hongke Zhao , Zhenya Huang , Qi Liu , Hengshu Zhu , Shui Yu