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Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

We present a new dataset for chart question answering (CQA) constructed from visualization notebooks. The dataset features real-world, multi-view charts paired with natural language questions grounded in analytical narratives. Unlike prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Kushal Kafle , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Christopher Kanan

A fundamental ability of humans is to utilize commonsense knowledge in language understanding and question answering. In recent years, many knowledge-enhanced Commonsense Question Answering (CQA) approaches have been proposed. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Ning Bian , Xianpei Han , Bo Chen , Le Sun

In order to facilitate the accesses of general users to knowledge graphs, an increasing effort is being exerted to construct graph-structured queries of given natural language questions. At the core of the construction is to deduce the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ruijie Wang , Meng Wang , Jun Liu , Michael Cochez , Stefan Decker

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

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

Knowledge graphs are important resources for many artificial intelligence tasks but often suffer from incompleteness. In this work, we propose to use pre-trained language models for knowledge graph completion. We treat triples in knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Liang Yao , Chengsheng Mao , Yuan Luo

Neural network based sequence-to-sequence models in an encoder-decoder framework have been successfully applied to solve Question Answering (QA) problems, predicting answers from statements and questions. However, almost all previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Huayu Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yong Ge , Asim Kadav

Multi-hop QA (Question Answering) is the task of finding the answer to a question across multiple documents. In recent years, a number of Deep Learning-based approaches have been proposed to tackle this complex task, as well as a few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yunjie He , Philip John Gorinski , Ieva Staliunaite , Pontus Stenetorp

We introduce LEAF-QA, a comprehensive dataset of $250,000$ densely annotated figures/charts, constructed from real-world open data sources, along with ~2 million question-answer (QA) pairs querying the structure and semantics of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Ritwick Chaudhry , Sumit Shekhar , Utkarsh Gupta , Pranav Maneriker , Prann Bansal , Ajay Joshi

Knowledge computation tasks are often infeasible for large data sets. This is in particular true when deriving knowledge bases in formal concept analysis (FCA). Hence, it is essential to come up with techniques to cope with this problem.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tom Hanika , Johannes Hirth

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

Large-scale knowledge graphs provide structured representations of human knowledge. However, as it is impossible to collect all knowledge, knowledge graphs are usually incomplete. Reasoning based on existing facts paves a way to discover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yuliang Wei , Haotian Li , Guodong Xin , Yao Wang , Bailing Wang

Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

Question answering systems are the latest evolution in information retrieval technology, designed to accept complex queries in natural language and provide accurate answers using both unstructured and structured knowledge sources. Knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arash Ghafouri , Mahdi Firouzmandi , Hasan Naderi

This paper presents a novel reranking method to better choose the optimal query graph, a sub-graph of knowledge graph, to retrieve the answer for an input question in Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). Existing methods suffer from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yonghui Jia , Wenliang Chen

A knowledge graph (KG) consists of a set of interconnected typed entities and their attributes. Recently, KGs are popularly used as the auxiliary information to enable more accurate, explainable, and diverse user preference recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yuntao Du , Xinjun Zhu , Lu Chen , Ziquan Fang , Yunjun Gao

Despite their competitive performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, large language models (LLMs) still have limitations in memorizing all world knowledge especially long tail knowledge. In this paper, we study the KG-augmented language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yike Wu , Nan Hu , Sheng Bi , Guilin Qi , Jie Ren , Anhuan Xie , Wei Song

When answering natural language questions over knowledge bases, missing facts, incomplete schema and limited scope naturally lead to many questions being unanswerable. While answerability has been explored in other QA settings, it has not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mayur Patidar , Prayushi Faldu , Avinash Singh , Lovekesh Vig , Indrajit Bhattacharya , Mausam