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The medical conversational system can relieve the burden of doctors and improve the efficiency of healthcare, especially during the pandemic. This paper presents a medical conversational question answering (CQA) system based on the…

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We present ExpliCIT-QA, a system that extends our previous MRT approach for tabular question answering into a multimodal pipeline capable of handling complex table images and providing explainable answers. ExpliCIT-QA follows a modular…

LLMs have shown impressive progress in natural language processing. However, they still face significant challenges in TableQA, where real-world complexities such as diverse table structures, multilingual data, and domain-specific reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junnan Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Bohan Yu , Xiaoyu Wu , Junbo Li , Lei Wang , Nan Xu

Existing benchmarks for visual question answering lack in visual grounding and complexity, particularly in evaluating spatial reasoning skills. We introduce FlowVQA, a novel benchmark aimed at assessing the capabilities of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shubhankar Singh , Purvi Chaurasia , Yerram Varun , Pranshu Pandya , Vatsal Gupta , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

ChatGPT explores a strategic blueprint of question answering (QA) in delivering medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and other healthcare support. This is achieved through the increasing incorporation of medical domain data via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Qing Li , Lei Li , Yu Li

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced the ability of artificial intelligence systems to understand and generate multimodal content. However, these models often exhibit limited effectiveness…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pengju Xu , Yan Wang , Shuyuan Zhang , Xuan Zhou , Xin Li , Yue Yuan , Fengzhao Li , Shunyuan Zhou , Xingyu Wang , Yi Zhang , Haiying Zhao

Multimodal systems have great potential to assist humans in procedural activities, where people follow instructions to achieve their goals. Despite diverse application scenarios, systems are typically evaluated on traditional classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Masaki Asada , Susan Holm , Yuran Wang , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

Community Question Answering (CQA) is a well-defined task that can be used in many scenarios, such as E-Commerce and online user community for special interests. In these communities, users can post articles, give comment, raise a question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Shen Gao , Yuchi Zhang , Yongliang Wang , Yang Dong , Xiuying Chen , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

Seeking answers to questions within long scientific research articles is a crucial area of study that aids readers in quickly addressing their inquiries. However, existing question-answering (QA) datasets based on scientific papers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shraman Pramanick , Rama Chellappa , Subhashini Venugopalan

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires agents to explore 3D environments to obtain observations and answer questions related to the scene. Existing methods leverage VLMs to directly explore the environment and answer questions without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mingliang Zhai , Hansheng Liang , Xiaomeng Fan , Zhi Gao , Chuanhao Li , Che Sun , Xu Bin , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Multimodal counterfactual reasoning is a vital yet challenging ability for AI systems. It involves predicting the outcomes of hypothetical circumstances based on vision and language inputs, which enables AI models to learn from failures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Te-Lin Wu , Zi-Yi Dou , Qingyuan Hu , Yu Hou , Nischal Reddy Chandra , Marjorie Freedman , Ralph M. Weischedel , Nanyun Peng

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer questions that they have in mind. Answering such questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Enamul Hoque , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Ahmed Masry

Question Answering (QA) is a task that entails reasoning over natural language contexts, and many relevant works augment language models (LMs) with graph neural networks (GNNs) to encode the Knowledge Graph (KG) information. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinyoung Park , Hyeong Kyu Choi , Juyeon Ko , Hyeonjin Park , Ji-Hoon Kim , Jisu Jeong , Kyungmin Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Textual Question Answering (QA) aims to provide precise answers to user's questions in natural language using unstructured data. One of the most popular approaches to this goal is machine reading comprehension(MRC). In recent years, many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yang Bai , Daisy Zhe Wang

Multimodal reasoning is a critical component in the pursuit of artificial intelligence systems that exhibit human-like intelligence, especially when tackling complex tasks. While the chain-of-thought (CoT) technique has gained considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingxuan Wei , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li

Generalization and robustness to input variation are core desiderata of machine learning research. Language varies along several axes, most importantly, language instance (e.g. French) and domain (e.g. news). While adapting NLP models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Leon Engländer , Hannah Sterz , Clifton Poth , Jonas Pfeiffer , Ilia Kuznetsov , Iryna Gurevych

Charts are very popular for analyzing data. When exploring charts, people often ask a variety of complex reasoning questions that involve several logical and arithmetic operations. They also commonly refer to visual features of a chart in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ahmed Masry , Do Xuan Long , Jia Qing Tan , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

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

Chart understanding tasks such as ChartQA and Chart-to-Text involve automatically extracting and interpreting key information from charts, enabling users to query or convert visual data into structured formats. State-of-the-art approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xudong Yang , Yifan Wu , Yizhang Zhu , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo