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Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which requires large number of repetitive work and neglects the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yang Deng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Kai Lei , Ying Shen

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multiple scenarios. However, KBQA remains challenging, especially regarding coverage and generalization settings. This is due to two main factors: i) understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yiheng Shu , Zhiwei Yu , Yuhan Li , Börje F. Karlsson , Tingting Ma , Yuzhong Qu , Chin-Yew Lin

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering(KBQA) aims to find the answer entity in a knowledge graph (KG), which requires multiple steps of reasoning. Existing retrieval-based approaches solve this task by concentrating on the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haowei Du , Quzhe Huang , Chen Li , Chen Zhang , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

This paper proposes a novel training method to improve the robustness of Extractive Question Answering (EQA) models. Previous research has shown that existing models, when trained on EQA datasets that include unanswerable questions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Son Quoc Tran , Matt Kretchmar

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on facts in knowledge bases. A typical approach to KBQA is semantic parsing, which translates a question into an executable logical form in a formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jinxin Liu , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Tingjian Zhang , Lunyiu Nie , Linmei Hu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many natural language processing tasks but often exhibit factual inconsistencies in knowledge-intensive settings. Integrating external knowledge resources, particularly knowledge graphs (KGs), provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shuai Wang , Yinan Yu

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

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions using structured knowledge from KBs. While LLM-only approaches offer generalization, they suffer from outdated knowledge, hallucinations, and lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Akiko Aizawa , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Promptly and accurately answering questions on products is important for e-commerce applications. Manually answering product questions (e.g. on community question answering platforms) results in slow response and does not scale. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Shiwei Zhang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Jey Han Lau , Jeffrey Chan , Cecile Paris

Recent studies on Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) have shown great progress on this task via better question understanding. Previous works for encoding questions mainly focus on the word sequences, but seldom consider the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Pengju Zhang , Yonghui Jia , Muhua Zhu , Wenliang Chen , Min Zhang

Despite significant progress in Visual Question Answering over the years, robustness of today's VQA models leave much to be desired. We introduce a new evaluation protocol and associated dataset (VQA-Rephrasings) and show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Meet Shah , Xinlei Chen , Marcus Rohrbach , Devi Parikh

Resolving knowledge conflicts is a crucial challenge in Question Answering (QA) tasks, as the internet contains numerous conflicting facts and opinions. While some research has made progress in tackling ambiguous settings where multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sagi Shaier , Ari Kobren , Philip Ogren

Due to the concise and structured nature of tables, the knowledge contained therein may be incomplete or missing, posing a significant challenge for table question answering (TableQA) and data analysis systems. Most existing datasets either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mengkang Hu , Haoyu Dong , Ping Luo , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

The conventional paradigm in neural question answering (QA) for narrative content is limited to a two-stage process: first, relevant text passages are retrieved and, subsequently, a neural network for machine comprehension extracts the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Bernhard Kratzwald , Anna Eigenmann , Stefan Feuerriegel

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zhongli Li , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Question answering (QA) aims to understand questions and find appropriate answers. In real-world QA systems, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) based QA is usually a practical and effective solution, especially for some complicated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Yanan Lu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

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

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

Question Answering (QA) is key for making possible a robust communication between human and machine. Modern language models used for QA have surpassed the human-performance in several essential tasks; however, these models require large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Liubov Nikolenko , Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti

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