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Large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) like Freebase and Wikidata house millions of structured knowledge. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) provides a user-friendly way to access these valuable KBs via asking natural language questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lingxi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yanling Wang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

This paper presents a scholarly Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) that answers bibliographic natural language questions by leveraging a large language model (LLM) in a few-shot manner. The model initially identifies the top-n…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Tilahun Abedissa Taffa , Ricardo Usbeck

Thanks to the development of the Semantic Web, a lot of new structured data has become available on the Web in the form of knowledge bases (KBs). Making this valuable data accessible and usable for end-users is one of the main goals of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dennis Diefenbach , Andreas Both , Kamal Singh , Pierre Maret

Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) facilitates information access by leveraging structured data without requiring formal query language expertise from the user. Instead, users can express their information needs by simply asking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Trond Linjordet , Krisztian Balog

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive impact in the field of natural language processing, but they still struggle with several issues regarding, such as completeness, timeliness, faithfulness and adaptability. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xintao Wang , Qianwen Yang , Yongting Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Qianyu He , Zhouhong Gu , Yanghua Xiao , Wei Wang

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

We present $\textbf{$\texttt{SkillQG}$}$: a question generation framework with controllable comprehension types for assessing and improving machine reading comprehension models. Existing question generation systems widely differentiate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiaoqiang Wang , Bang Liu , Siliang Tang , Lingfei Wu

Multi-hop knowledge based question answering (KBQA) is a complex task for natural language understanding. Many KBQA approaches have been proposed in recent years, and most of them are trained based on labeled reasoning path. This hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kechen Qin , Yu Wang , Cheng Li , Kalpa Gunaratna , Hongxia Jin , Virgil Pavlu , Javed A. Aslam

Formal query generation aims to generate correct executable queries for question answering over knowledge bases (KBs), given entity and relation linking results. Current approaches build universal paraphrasing or ranking models for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Jiwei Ding , Wei Hu , Qixin Xu , Yuzhong Qu

Question answering over knowledge base (KB-QA) has recently become a popular research topic in NLP. One popular way to solve the KB-QA problem is to make use of a pipeline of several NLP modules, including entity discovery and linking (EDL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Dekun Wu , Nana Nosirova , Hui Jiang , Mingbin Xu

Current methods for Knowledge-Based Question Answering (KBQA) usually rely on complex training techniques and model frameworks, leading to many limitations in practical applications. Recently, the emergence of In-Context Learning (ICL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zhijie Nie , Richong Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Xudong Liu

Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graph~(KGQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away from the topic entities mentioned in a natural language question on a large-scale Knowledge Graph (KG). To cope with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) systems have the goal of answering complex natural language questions by reasoning over relevant facts retrieved from Knowledge Bases (KB). One of the major challenges faced by these systems is their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nithish Kannen , Udit Sharma , Sumit Neelam , Dinesh Khandelwal , Shajith Ikbal , Hima Karanam , L Venkata Subramaniam

Multi-hop reading comprehension requires not only the ability to reason over raw text but also the ability to combine multiple evidence. We propose a novel learning approach that helps language models better understand difficult multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiao-Yu Guo , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

In order to facilitate natural language understanding, the key is to engage commonsense or background knowledge. However, how to engage commonsense effectively in question answering systems is still under exploration in both research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qianglong Chen , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen , Yin Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

When answering complex questions, people can seamlessly combine information from visual, textual and tabular sources. While interest in models that reason over multiple pieces of evidence has surged in recent years, there has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Alon Talmor , Ori Yoran , Amnon Catav , Dan Lahav , Yizhong Wang , Akari Asai , Gabriel Ilharco , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Jonathan Berant

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has demonstrated significant effectiveness in enhancing large language models (LLMs) for complex multi-hop question answering (QA). For multi-hop QA tasks, current iterative approaches predominantly rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yuling Shi , Maolin Sun , Zijun Liu , Mo Yang , Yixiong Fang , Tianran Sun , Xiaodong Gu

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) is a crucial task in natural language processing that requires reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs) to answer natural language questions. Recent methods utilizing large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiujun Zhou , Pingjian Zhang , Deyou Tang

Knowledge from diverse application domains is organized as knowledge graphs (KGs) that are stored in RDF engines accessible in the web via SPARQL endpoints. Expressing a well-formed SPARQL query requires information about the graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Reham Omar , Ishika Dhall , Panos Kalnis , Essam Mansour