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We introduce ChronoQA, a large-scale benchmark dataset for Chinese question answering, specifically designed to evaluate temporal reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. ChronoQA is constructed from over 300,000 news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ziyang Chen , Erxue Min , Xiang Zhao , Yunxin Li , Xin Jia , Jinzhi Liao , Jichao Li , Shuaiqiang Wang , Baotian Hu , Dawei Yin

Question Answering over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGQA) has attracted growing interest for handling time-sensitive queries. However, existing methods still struggle with: 1) weak incorporation of temporal constraints in question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wuzhenghong Wen , Bowen Zhou , Jinwen Huang , Xianjie Wu , Yuwei Sun , Su Pan , Liang Li , Jianting Liu

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) involves retrieving facts from a Knowledge Graph (KG) using natural language queries. A KG is a curated set of facts consisting of entities linked by relations. Certain facts include also temporal…

The temporal aspect is a significant dimension of our reality. We notice the challenge that large language models (LLMs) face when engaging in temporal reasoning. Our preliminary experiments show that methods involving the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xingxuan Li , Liying Cheng , Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Shafiq Joty , Lidong Bing

Large language models (LLMs) have shown nearly saturated performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. As a result, it is natural for people to believe that LLMs have also mastered abilities such as time understanding and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yifan Wei , Yisong Su , Huanhuan Ma , Xiaoyan Yu , Fangyu Lei , Yuanzhe Zhang , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Temporal reasoning over tabular data presents substantial challenges for large language models (LLMs), as evidenced by recent research. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of temporal datasets to pinpoint the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Irwin Deng , Kushagra Dixit , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) under knowledge editing (KE) has garnered significant attention in the era of large language models. However, existing models for MQA under KE exhibit poor performance when dealing with questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Keyuan Cheng , Gang Lin , Haoyang Fei , Yuxuan zhai , Lu Yu , Muhammad Asif Ali , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Vision and language understanding has emerged as a subject undergoing intense study in Artificial Intelligence. Among many tasks in this line of research, visual question answering (VQA) has been one of the most successful ones, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yunseok Jang , Yale Song , Youngjae Yu , Youngjin Kim , Gunhee Kim

Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA) aims to answer questions with temporal intent over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs). The core challenge of this task lies in understanding the complex semantic information regarding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Zhuo Chen , Zhao Zhang , Zixuan Li , Fei Wang , Yutao Zeng , Xiaolong Jin , Yongjun Xu

Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural languages. It constitutes a considerable part of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Munazza Zaib , Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Adnan Mahmood , Yang Zhang

Answering time-sensitive questions from long documents requires temporal reasoning over the times in questions and documents. An important open question is whether large language models can perform such reasoning solely using a provided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xin Su , Phillip Howard , Nagib Hakim , Steven Bethard

Semi-structured data, such as Infobox tables, often include temporal information about entities, either implicitly or explicitly. Can current NLP systems reason about such information in semi-structured tables? To tackle this question, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Vivek Gupta , Pranshu Kandoi , Mahek Bhavesh Vora , Shuo Zhang , Yujie He , Ridho Reinanda , Vivek Srikumar

Multimodal question answering tasks can be used as proxy tasks to study systems that can perceive and reason about the world. Answering questions about different types of input modalities stresses different aspects of reasoning such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Haytham M. Fayek , Justin Johnson

Temporal question answering (QA) involves time constraints, with phrases such as "... in 2019" or "... before COVID". In the former, time is an explicit condition, in the latter it is implicit. State-of-the-art methods have limitations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zhen Jia , Philipp Christmann , Gerhard Weikum

Time is deeply woven into how people perceive, and communicate about the world. Almost unconsciously, we provide our language utterances with temporal cues, like verb tenses, and we can hardly produce sentences without such cues. Extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Artuur Leeuwenberg , Marie-Francine Moens

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in question answering and reasoning thanks to their extensive parametric memory. However, their knowledge is inherently limited by the scope of their pre-training data, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Atahan Özer , Çağatay Yıldız

We introduce REALTIME QA, a dynamic question answering (QA) platform that announces questions and evaluates systems on a regular basis (weekly in this version). REALTIME QA inquires about the current world, and QA systems need to answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jungo Kasai , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Yoichi Takahashi , Ronan Le Bras , Akari Asai , Xinyan Yu , Dragomir Radev , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi , Kentaro Inui

Although general question answering has been well explored in recent years, temporal question answering is a task which has not received as much focus. Our work aims to leverage a popular approach used for general question answering, answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Armand Stricker

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in Contextual Question Answering (CQA). However, prior approaches typically employ elaborate reasoning strategies regardless of question complexity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhengyi Zhao , Shubo Zhang , Zezhong Wang , Huimin Wang , Yutian Zhao , Bin Liang , Yefeng Zheng , Binyang Li , Kam-Fai Wong , Xian Wu

While the ability of language models to elicit facts has been widely investigated, how they handle temporally changing facts remains underexplored. We discover Temporal Heads, specific attention heads that primarily handle temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yein Park , Chanwoong Yoon , Jungwoo Park , Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang