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Visual question answering is an important task in both natural language and vision understanding. However, in most of the public visual question answering datasets such as VQA, CLEVR, the questions are human generated that specific to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Bingning Wang , Feiyang Lv , Ting Yao , Yiming Yuan , Jin Ma , Yu Luo , Haijin Liang

We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

Deep reading models for question-answering have demonstrated promising performance over the last couple of years. However current systems tend to learn how to cleverly extract a span of the source document, based on its similarity with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Quentin Grail , Julien Perez

Complex query answering (CQA) on knowledge graphs (KGs) is gaining momentum as a challenging reasoning task. In this paper, we show that the current benchmarks for CQA might not be as complex as we think, as the way they are built distorts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Cosimo Gregucci , Bo Xiong , Daniel Hernandez , Lorenzo Loconte , Pasquale Minervini , Steffen Staab , Antonio Vergari

The last few years have seen an explosion of research on the topic of automated question answering (QA), spanning the communities of information retrieval, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. This tutorial would cover…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rishiraj Saha Roy , Avishek Anand

We introduce the novel task of answering entity-seeking recommendation questions using a collection of reviews that describe candidate answer entities. We harvest a QA dataset that contains 47,124 paragraph-sized real user questions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Danish Contractor , Krunal Shah , Aditi Partap , Mausam , Parag Singla

Privacy policies are long and complex documents that are difficult for users to read and understand, and yet, they have legal effects on how user data is collected, managed and used. Ideally, we would like to empower users to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Abhilasha Ravichander , Alan W Black , Shomir Wilson , Thomas Norton , Norman Sadeh

Community Question Answering (CQA) forums such as Stack Overflow and Yahoo! Answers contain a rich resource of answers to a wide range of questions. Each question thread can receive a large number of answers with different perspectives. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Alexander R. Fabbri , Xiaojian Wu , Srini Iyer , Mona Diab

Knowledge work demands sustained self-regulation, prioritization, and reflection-yet existing planning tools only partially support these needs. Digital to-do list applications feature task persistence but lack goal representation.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Simon Bohnen , Gabriel Garbers , Lukas Ellinger , Georg Groh

This paper presents ParaQA, a question answering (QA) dataset with multiple paraphrased responses for single-turn conversation over knowledge graphs (KG). The dataset was created using a semi-automated framework for generating diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Endri Kacupaj , Barshana Banerjee , Kuldeep Singh , Jens Lehmann

Question Answering (QA) is a longstanding challenge in natural language processing. Existing QA works mostly focus on specific question types, knowledge domains, or reasoning skills. The specialty in QA research hinders systems from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Wanjun Zhong , Yifan Gao , Ning Ding , Yujia Qin , Zhiyuan Liu , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Nan Duan

Recently proposed long-form question answering (QA) systems, supported by large language models (LLMs), have shown promising capabilities. Yet, attributing and verifying their generated abstractive answers can be difficult, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tal Schuster , Adam D. Lelkes , Haitian Sun , Jai Gupta , Jonathan Berant , William W. Cohen , Donald Metzler

Community Question Answering (cQA) provides new interesting research directions to the traditional Question Answering (QA) field, e.g., the exploitation of the interaction between users and the structure of related posts. In this context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Preslav Nakov , Lluís Màrquez , Walid Magdy , Alessandro Moschitti , James Glass , Bilal Randeree

The recent explosion of question answering (QA) datasets and models has increased the interest in the generalization of models across multiple domains and formats by either training on multiple datasets or by combining multiple models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Haritz Puerto , Gözde Gül Şahin , Iryna Gurevych

When Question-Answering (QA) systems are deployed in the real world, users query them through a variety of interfaces, such as speaking to voice assistants, typing questions into a search engine, or even translating questions to languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Abhilasha Ravichander , Siddharth Dalmia , Maria Ryskina , Florian Metze , Eduard Hovy , Alan W Black

A question answering (QA) system is a type of conversational AI that generates natural language answers to questions posed by human users. QA systems often form the backbone of interactive dialogue systems, and have been studied extensively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Aakash Bansal , Zachary Eberhart , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex information needs by conversing conversations with search engines, in the sense that users can express their queries in natural language, and directly receivethe information they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Evangelos Kanoulas , Christof Monz , Maarten de Rijke

Currently, personal assistant systems, run on smartphones and use natural language interfaces. However, these systems rely mostly on the web for finding information. Mobile and wearable devices can collect an enormous amount of contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Reza Rawassizadeh , Chelsea Dobbins , Manouchehr Nourizadeh , Zahra Ghamchili , Michael Pazzani

Question answering (QA) tasks have been posed using a variety of formats, such as extractive span selection, multiple choice, etc. This has led to format-specialized models, and even to an implicit division in the QA community. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Daniel Khashabi , Sewon Min , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Oyvind Tafjord , Peter Clark , Hannaneh Hajishirzi