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Readers of academic research papers often read with the goal of answering specific questions. Question Answering systems that can answer those questions can make consumption of the content much more efficient. However, building such tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Pradeep Dasigi , Kyle Lo , Iz Beltagy , Arman Cohan , Noah A. Smith , Matt Gardner

Tabular data embedded in PDF files, web pages, and other types of documents is prevalent in various domains. These tables, which we call human-centric tables (HCTs for short), are dense in information but often exhibit complex structural…

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced general-purpose reasoning, showing strong performance across diverse tasks. However, existing methods often rely on implicit exploration, where the model follows stochastic and unguided reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiaxiang Chen , Zhuo Wang , Mingxi Zou , Zhucong Li , Zhijian Zhou , Song Wang , Zenglin Xu

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) simplifies querying vast amounts of knowledge stored in a graph-based model using natural language. However, the research has largely concentrated on English, putting non-English speakers at a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nikit Srivastava , Mengshi Ma , Daniel Vollmers , Hamada Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The evaluation of Question Answering (QA) systems over Knowledge Graphs has historically suffered from fragmentation, inconsistency, and limited reproducibility. While significant progress has been made in semantic parsing and SPARQL query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yousouf Taghzouti , Tao Jiang , Camille Juigné , Benjamin Navet , Fabien Gandon , Franck Michel , Louis-Felix Nothias

Training conversational question-answering (QA) systems requires a substantial amount of in-domain data, which is often scarce in practice. A common solution to this challenge is to generate synthetic data. Traditional methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kun Qian , Maximillian Chen , Siyan Li , Arpit Sharma , Zhou Yu

Existing long-document question answering systems typically process texts as flat sequences or use heuristic chunking, which overlook the discourse structures that naturally guide human comprehension. We present a discourse-aware…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huiyao Chen , Yi Yang , Yinghui Li , Meishan Zhang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Translating natural language questions into SPARQL queries enables Knowledge Base querying for factual and up-to-date responses. However, existing datasets for this task are predominantly template-based, leading models to learn superficial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Papa Abdou Karim Karou Diallo , Amal Zouaq

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

In order for large language model (LLM)-based assistants to effectively adapt to evolving information needs, it must be possible to update their factual knowledge through continued training on new data. The standard recipe for doing so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhengbao Jiang , Zhiqing Sun , Weijia Shi , Pedro Rodriguez , Chunting Zhou , Graham Neubig , Xi Victoria Lin , Wen-tau Yih , Srinivasan Iyer

Lexical matching remains the de facto evaluation method for open-domain question answering (QA). Unfortunately, lexical matching fails completely when a plausible candidate answer does not appear in the list of gold answers, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ehsan Kamalloo , Nouha Dziri , Charles L. A. Clarke , Davood Rafiei

This study aims to innovatively explore adaptive applications of large language models (LLM) in urban renewal. It also aims to improve its performance and text generation quality for knowledge question-answering (QA) tasks. Based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xi Wang , Xianyao Ling , Tom Zhang , Xuecao Li , Shaolan Wang , Zhixing Li , Liang Zhang , Peng Gong

In spoken question answering, the systems are designed to answer questions from contiguous text spans within the related speech transcripts. However, the most natural way that human seek or test their knowledge is via human conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Fenglin Liu , Shen Ge , Xian Wu , Yuexian Zou

Open-domain question answering (Open-QA) is a common task for evaluating large language models (LLMs). However, current Open-QA evaluations are criticized for the ambiguity in questions and the lack of semantic understanding in evaluators.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Peiran Yao , Denilson Barbosa

Applying existing question answering (QA) systems to specialized domains like law and finance presents challenges that necessitate domain expertise. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive language comprehension and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Vaibhav Mavi , Abulhair Saparov , Chen Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated powerful text generation capabilities, bringing unprecedented innovation to the healthcare field. While LLMs hold immense promise for applications in healthcare, applying them to real clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Rui Yang , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yuhe Ke , Lechao Cheng , Qingyu Chen , Irene Li

The proliferation of complex structured data in hybrid sources, such as PDF documents and web pages, presents unique challenges for current Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in providing accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shivani Upadhyay , Messiah Ataey , Syed Shariyar Murtaza , Yifan Nie , Jimmy Lin

Large language models (LLMs) can reshape information processing by handling data analysis, visualization, and interpretation in an interactive, context-aware dialogue with users, including voice interaction, while maintaining high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammad Nour Al Awad , Sergey Ivanov , Olga Tikhonova , Ivan Khodnenko

To evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) for question answering (QA), traditional methods typically focus on assessing single-turn responses to given questions. However, this approach doesn't capture the dynamic nature of human-AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ruosen Li , Ruochen Li , Barry Wang , Xinya Du

We propose STRuCT-LLM, a unified framework for training large language models (LLMs) to perform structured reasoning over both relational and graph-structured data. Our approach jointly optimizes Text-to-SQL and Text-to-Cypher tasks using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Josefa Lia Stoisser , Marc Boubnovski Martell , Lawrence Phillips , Casper Hansen , Julien Fauqueur