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Large Language Models (LLMs) encapsulate a surprising amount of factual world knowledge. However, their performance on temporal questions and historical knowledge is limited because they often cannot understand temporal scope and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jonas Wallat , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Adam Jatowt , Avishek Anand

Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA) is challenging because it requires multi-hop reasoning under complex temporal constraints. Recent LLM-based approaches have improved semantic modeling for this task, but many still rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xufei Lv , Jiahui Yang , Haoyuan Sun , Xialin Su , Zhiliang Tian , Yifu Gao , Linbo Qiao , Houde Liu

Text offers intuitive access to information. This can, in particular, complement the density of numerical time series, thereby allowing improved interactions with time series models to enhance accessibility and decision-making. While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Felix Divo , Maurice Kraus , Anh Q. Nguyen , Hao Xue , Imran Razzak , Flora D. Salim , Kristian Kersting , Devendra Singh Dhami

Question answering over knowledge bases (KB-QA) poses challenges in handling complex questions that need to be decomposed into sub-questions. An important case, addressed here, is that of temporal questions, where cues for temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Zhen Jia , Abdalghani Abujabal , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Jannik Stroetgen , Gerhard Weikum

Temporal question answering is an established method for evaluating temporal reasoning in large language models. Expected answers are often numeric (e.g., dates or durations), yet model responses are evaluated like regular text with exact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Auss Abbood , Zaiqiao Meng , Nigel Collier

Long-form question answering (LFQA) poses a challenge as it involves generating detailed answers in the form of paragraphs, which go beyond simple yes/no responses or short factual answers. While existing QA models excel in questions with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Pritom Saha Akash , Kashob Kumar Roy , Lucian Popa , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

We introduce \textsc{ComplexTempQA},\footnote{Dataset and code available at: https://github.com/DataScienceUIBK/ComplexTempQA} a large-scale dataset consisting of over 100 million question-answer pairs designed to tackle the challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Raphael Gruber , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Michael Färber , Adam Jatowt

Answering factual questions with temporal intent over knowledge graphs (temporal KGQA) attracts rising attention in recent years. In the generation of temporal queries, existing KGQA methods ignore the fact that some intrinsic connections…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wentao Ding , Hao Chen , Huayu Li , Yuzhong Qu

Temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) aims to answer time-sensitive questions by leveraging temporal knowledge bases. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate significant potential in TKGQA, current prompting strategies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihao Jiang , Miao Peng , Zhenyan Shan , Wenjie Xu , Ben Liu , Gong Chen , Ziqi Gao , Min Peng

Text data is inherently temporal. The meaning of words and phrases changes over time, and the context in which they are used is constantly evolving. This is not just true for social media data, where the language used is rapidly influenced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kai-Robin Lange , Niklas Benner , Lars Grönberg , Aymane Hachcham , Imene Kolli , Jonas Rieger , Carsten Jentsch

Understanding events necessitates grasping their temporal context, which is often not explicitly stated in natural language. For example, it is not a trivial task for a machine to infer that a museum tour may last for a few hours, but can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Lekshmi R Nair , Arun Sankar , Koninika Pal

Test-time compute is central to large reasoning models, yet analysing their reasoning behaviour through generated text is increasingly impractical and unreliable. Response length is often used as a brute proxy for reasoning effort, but this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Quoc Tuan Pham , Mehdi Jafari , Flora Salim

Temporal reasoning is pivotal for Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend the real world. However, existing works neglect the real-world challenges for temporal reasoning: (1) intensive temporal information, (2) fast-changing event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shaohang Wei , Wei Li , Feifan Song , Wen Luo , Tianyi Zhuang , Haochen Tan , Zhijiang Guo , Houfeng Wang

Question answering over temporal knowledge graphs (KGs) efficiently uses facts contained in a temporal KG, which records entity relations and when they occur in time, to answer natural language questions (e.g., "Who was the president of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Chao Shang , Guangtao Wang , Peng Qi , Jing Huang

Textbook question answering (TQA) is a challenging task in artificial intelligence due to the complex nature of context needed to answer complex questions. Although previous research has improved the task, there are still some limitations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hessa Abdulrahman Alawwad , Areej Alhothali , Usman Naseem , Ali Alkhathlan , Amani Jamal

Question Answering (QA) is one of the most important natural language processing (NLP) tasks. It aims using NLP technologies to generate a corresponding answer to a given question based on the massive unstructured corpus. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zhen Wang

Text-based Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task which aims at finding short concrete answers for users' questions. This line of research has been widely studied with information retrieval techniques and has received increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

Question answering plays a pivotal role in human daily life because it involves our acquisition of knowledge about the world. However, due to the dynamic and ever-changing nature of real-world facts, the answer can be completely different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xinyu Zhu , Cheng Yang , Bei Chen , Siheng Li , Jian-Guang Lou , Yujiu Yang

Event forecasting is a challenging, yet important task, as humans seek to constantly plan for the future. Existing automated forecasting studies rely mostly on structured data, such as time-series or event-based knowledge graphs, to help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Woojeong Jin , Rahul Khanna , Suji Kim , Dong-Ho Lee , Fred Morstatter , Aram Galstyan , Xiang Ren

With the advancement of large language models (LLMs), diverse time series analysis tasks are reformulated as time series question answering (TSQA) through a unified natural language interface. However, existing LLM-based approaches largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chen Su , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song