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The intelligent question answering (IQA) system can accurately capture users' search intention by understanding the natural language questions, searching relevant content efficiently from a massive knowledge-base, and returning the answer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yachen Tang , Haiyun Han , Xianmao Yu , Jing Zhao , Guangyi Liu , Longfei Wei

This paper introduces a scholarly Question Answering (QA) system on top of the NFDI4DataScience Gateway, employing a Retrieval Augmented Generation-based (RAG) approach. The NFDI4DS Gateway, as a foundational framework, offers a unified and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hamed Babaei Giglou , Tilahun Abedissa Taffa , Rana Abdullah , Aida Usmanova , Ricardo Usbeck , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

In this paper, we propose SPBERT, a transformer-based language model pre-trained on massive SPARQL query logs. By incorporating masked language modeling objectives and the word structural objective, SPBERT can learn general-purpose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Hieu Tran , Long Phan , James Anibal , Binh T. Nguyen , Truong-Son Nguyen

Question answering has emerged as an intuitive way of querying structured data sources, and has attracted significant advancements over the years. In this article, we provide an overview over these recent advancements, focusing on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Nilesh Chakraborty , Denis Lukovnikov , Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Question Answering (QA) is a task in natural language processing that has seen considerable growth after the advent of transformers. There has been a surge in QA datasets that have been proposed to challenge natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Kate Pearce , Tiffany Zhan , Aneesh Komanduri , Justin Zhan

Pre-trained Text-to-Text Language Models (LMs), such as T5 or BART yield promising results in the Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) task. However, the capacity of the models is limited and the quality decreases for questions with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mikhail Salnikov , Maria Lysyuk , Pavel Braslavski , Anton Razzhigaev , Valentin Malykh , Alexander Panchenko

Adopting Knowledge Graphs (KGs) as a structured, semantic-oriented, data representation model has significantly improved data integration, reasoning, and querying capabilities across different domains. This is especially true in modern…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Marco Arazzi , Davide Ligari , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer factoid questions based on knowledge bases. However, generating the most appropriate knowledge base query code based on Natural Language Questions (NLQ) poses a significant challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yunlong Chen , Yaming Zhang , Jianfei Yu , Li Yang , Rui Xia

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

Question Answering (QA) is a widely-used framework for developing and evaluating an intelligent machine. In this light, QA on Electronic Health Records (EHR), namely EHR QA, can work as a crucial milestone towards developing an intelligent…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Junwoo Park , Youngwoo Cho , Haneol Lee , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

The SPARQL query language is the standard method to access knowledge graphs (KGs). However, formulating SPARQL queries is a significant challenge for non-expert users, and remains time-consuming for the experienced ones. Best practices…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yousouf Taghzouti , Franck Michel , Tao Jiang , Louis-Félix Nothias , Fabien Gandon

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promise in text-generation tasks. However, their educational applications, particularly for domain-specific queries, remain underexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Rui Yang , Boming Yang , Sixun Ouyang , Tianwei She , Aosong Feng , Yuang Jiang , Freddy Lecue , Jinghui Lu , Irene Li

Question generation (QG) is a natural language generation task where a model is trained to ask questions corresponding to some input text. Most recent approaches frame QG as a sequence-to-sequence problem and rely on additional features and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Luis Enrico Lopez , Diane Kathryn Cruz , Jan Christian Blaise Cruz , Charibeth Cheng

Flowchart Question Answering (FlowchartQA) is a multi-modal task that automatically answers questions conditioned on graphic flowcharts. Current studies convert flowcharts into interlanguages (e.g., Graphviz) for Question Answering (QA),…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xinyu Li , Bowei Zou , Yuchong Chen , Yifan Fan , Yu Hong

Recent advances in NLU and NLP have resulted in renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for non-technical users to access and query the data. While early systems evolved from keyword search…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Abdul Quamar , Vasilis Efthymiou , Chuan Lei , Fatma Özcan

While most conversational agents are grounded on either free-text or structured knowledge, many knowledge corpora consist of hybrid sources. This paper presents the first conversational agent that supports the full generality of hybrid data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shicheng Liu , Jialiang Xu , Wesley Tjangnaka , Sina J. Semnani , Chen Jie Yu , Monica S. Lam

Research on question answering with knowledge base has recently seen an increasing use of deep architectures. In this extended abstract, we study the application of the neural machine translation paradigm for question parsing. We employ a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Tommaso Soru , Edgard Marx , André Valdestilhas , Diego Esteves , Diego Moussallem , Gustavo Publio

Academic question answering (QA) in heterogeneous scholarly networks presents unique challenges requiring both structural understanding and interpretable reasoning. While graph neural networks (GNNs) capture structured graph information and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Runsong Jia , Mengjia Wu , Ying Ding , Jie Lu , Yi Zhang

Conversational question answering (ConvQA) is a convenient means of searching over RDF knowledge graphs (KGs), where a prevalent approach is to translate natural language questions to SPARQL queries. However, SPARQL has certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rishiraj Saha Roy , Chris Hinze , Joel Schlotthauer , Farzad Naderi , Viktor Hangya , Andreas Foltyn , Luzian Hahn , Fabian Kuech

In this work, we present an end-to-end Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) system named GETT-QA. GETT-QA uses T5, a popular text-to-text pre-trained language model. The model takes a question in natural language as input and produces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Debayan Banerjee , Pranav Ajit Nair , Ricardo Usbeck , Chris Biemann