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Natural language question answering (QA) over structured data sources such as tables and knowledge graphs have been widely investigated, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years. The main solutions include question to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wen Zhang , Long Jin , Yushan Zhu , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhiwei Huang , Junjie Wang , Yin Hua , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires both image and world knowledge to answer questions. Current methods first retrieve knowledge from the image and external knowledge base with the original complex question, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Jiahao Nie , Wenkai Shi , Haonan Lin , Yan Chen , QianYing Wang , Yaqiang Wu , Guang Dai , Ping Chen

Answering complex questions over knowledge bases (KB-QA) faces huge input data with billions of facts, involving millions of entities and thousands of predicates. For efficiency, QA systems first reduce the answer search space by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

When answering complex questions, large language models (LLMs) may produce answers that do not satisfy all criteria of the question. While existing self-evaluation techniques aim to detect if such answers are correct, these techniques are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Nishant Balepur , Jie Huang , Samraj Moorjani , Hari Sundaram , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Direct answering of questions that involve multiple entities and relations is a challenge for text-based QA. This problem is most pronounced when answers can be found only by joining evidence from multiple documents. Curated knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaolu Lu , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Abdalghani Abujabal , Yafang Wang , Gerhard Weikum

Knowledge Bases (KBs) play a key role in various applications. As two representative KB-related tasks, knowledge base completion (KBC) and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are closely related and inherently complementary with each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yinan Liu , Dongying Lin , Sigang Luo , Xiaochun Yang , Bin Wang

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 base question answering (KBQA) is a critical yet challenging task due to the vast number of entities within knowledge bases and the diversity of natural language questions posed by users. Unfortunately, the performance of most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Zhenyu Li , Sunqi Fan , Yu Gu , Xiuxing Li , Zhichao Duan , Bowen Dong , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang

Existing question answering methods infer answers either from a knowledge base or from raw text. While knowledge base (KB) methods are good at answering compositional questions, their performance is often affected by the incompleteness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Siva Reddy , Andrew McCallum

Incorporating multiple knowledge sources is proven to be beneficial for answering complex factoid questions. To utilize multiple knowledge bases (KB), previous works merge all KBs into a single graph via entity alignment and reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Minhao Zhang , Yongliang Ma , Yanzeng Li , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Zou , Ming Zhou

We propose a new end-to-end question answering model, which learns to aggregate answer evidence from an incomplete knowledge base (KB) and a set of retrieved text snippets. Under the assumptions that the structured KB is easier to query and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang

Knowledge tracing (KT) is a crucial technique to predict students' future performance by observing their historical learning processes. Due to the powerful representation ability of deep neural networks, remarkable progress has been made by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jiahao Chen , Zitao Liu , Shuyan Huang , Qiongqiong Liu , Weiqi Luo

Search engines based on keyword retrieval can no longer adapt to the way of information acquisition in the era of intelligent Internet of Things due to the return of keyword related Internet pages. How to quickly, accurately and effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Gaochen Wu , Bin Xu , Yuxin Qin , Yang Liu , Lingyu Liu , Ziwei Wang

While large language models exhibit remarkable performance in the Question Answering task, they are susceptible to hallucinations. Challenges arise when these models grapple with understanding multi-hop relations in complex questions or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Hejing Cao , Zhenwei An , Jiazhan Feng , Kun Xu , Liwei Chen , Dongyan Zhao

Complex knowledge base question answering can be achieved by converting questions into sequences of predefined actions. However, there is a significant semantic and structural gap between natural language and action sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yechun Tang , Xiaoxia Cheng , Weiming Lu

This paper proposes the problem of Deep Question Generation (DQG), which aims to generate complex questions that require reasoning over multiple pieces of information of the input passage. In order to capture the global structure of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Liangming Pan , Yuxi Xie , Yansong Feng , Tat-Seng Chua , Min-Yen Kan

Knowledge tracing (KT) models, e.g., the deep knowledge tracing (DKT) model, track an individual learner's acquisition of skills over time by examining the learner's performance on questions related to those skills. A practical limitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Shashank Sonkar , Andrew E. Waters , Andrew S. Lan , Phillip J. Grimaldi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Current temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) methods primarily focus on implicit temporal constraints, lacking the capability of handling more complex temporal queries, and struggle with limited reasoning abilities and error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhaoyan Gong , Juan Li , Zhiqiang Liu , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen , Wen Zhang

Question Answering (QA) is the task of automatically answering questions posed by humans in natural languages. There are different settings to answer a question, such as abstractive, extractive, boolean, and multiple-choice QA. As a popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhichao Duan , Xiuxing Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhenyu Li , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) is a challenging task, which requires the model to leverage external knowledge for comprehending and answering questions grounded in visual content. Recent studies retrieve the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongze Hao , Jian Jia , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Te Yang , Yan Li , Yanhua Cheng , Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Jing Liu