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Knowledge graph simple question answering (KGSQA), in its standard form, does not take into account that human-curated question answering training data only cover a small subset of the relations that exist in a Knowledge Graph (KG), or even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Georgios Sidiropoulos , Nikos Voskarides , Evangelos Kanoulas

We develop a unified system to answer directly from text open-domain questions that may require a varying number of retrieval steps. We employ a single multi-task transformer model to perform all the necessary subtasks -- retrieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Peng Qi , Haejun Lee , Oghenetegiri "TG" Sido , Christopher D. Manning

Accessing knowledge via multilingual natural-language interfaces is one of the emerging challenges in the field of information retrieval and related ones. Structured knowledge stored in knowledge graphs can be queried via a specific query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandr Perevalov , Andreas Both

Question answering (QA), giving correct answers to questions, is a popular task, but we test reverse question answering (RQA): for an input answer, give a question with that answer. Past work tests QA and RQA separately, but we test them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Nishant Balepur , Feng Gu , Abhilasha Ravichander , Shi Feng , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Rachel Rudinger

Answering questions related to the legal domain is a complex task, primarily due to the intricate nature and diverse range of legal document systems. Providing an accurate answer to a legal query typically necessitates specialized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

We introduce the task of acoustic question answering (AQA) in the area of acoustic reasoning. In this task an agent learns to answer questions on the basis of acoustic context. In order to promote research in this area, we propose a data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jerome Abdelnour , Giampiero Salvi , Jean Rouat

Question-answering for domain-specific applications has recently attracted much interest due to the latest advancements in large language models (LLMs). However, accurately assessing the performance of these applications remains a…

Question Answering System (QAS) is used for information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP) to reduce human effort. There are numerous QAS based on the user documents present today, but they all are limited to providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Ahlam Ansari , Moonish Maknojia , Altamash Shaikh

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions over large-scale knowledge bases (KBs), which can be summarized into two crucial steps: knowledge retrieval and semantic parsing. However, three core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Haoran Luo , Haihong E , Zichen Tang , Shiyao Peng , Yikai Guo , Wentai Zhang , Chenghao Ma , Guanting Dong , Meina Song , Wei Lin , Yifan Zhu , Luu Anh Tuan

Answering questions over domain-specific graphs requires a tailored approach due to the limited number of relations and the specific nature of the domain. Our approach integrates classic logical programming languages into large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Navid Madani , Rohini K. Srihari , Kenneth Joseph

Conversational systems have made significant progress in generating natural language responses. However, their potential as conversational search systems is currently limited due to their passive role in the information-seeking process. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Pierre Erbacher , Jian-Yun Nie , Philippe Preux , Laure Soulier

We propose a neural network-based approach to automatically learn and classify natural language questions into its corresponding template using recursive neural networks. An obvious advantage of using neural networks is the elimination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ram G Athreya , Srividya Bansal , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Ricardo Usbeck

While there has been substantial progress in text comprehension through simple factoid question answering, more holistic comprehension of a discourse still presents a major challenge (Dunietz et al., 2020). Someone critically reflecting on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wei-Jen Ko , Cutter Dalton , Mark Simmons , Eliza Fisher , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Time-Sensitive Question Answering (TSQA) demands the effective utilization of specific temporal contexts, encompassing multiple time-evolving facts, to address time-sensitive questions. This necessitates not only the parsing of temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wanqi Yang , Yanda Li , Meng Fang , Ling Chen

VQA Natural Language Explanation (VQA-NLE) task aims to explain the decision-making process of VQA models in natural language. Unlike traditional attention or gradient analysis, free-text rationales can be easier to understand and gain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wei Suo , Mengyang Sun , Weisong Liu , Yiqi Gao , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang , Qi Wu

Process reward models (PRMs) enhance complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by evaluating candidate solutions step-by-step and selecting answers based on aggregated step scores. While effective in domains such as mathematics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Lei Tang , Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar

Question processing is a fundamental step in a question answering (QA) application, and its quality impacts the performance of QA application. The major challenging issue in processing question is how to extract semantic of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Omar Al-Harbi , Shaidah Jusoh , Norita Md Norwawi

Pretrained large Language Models (LLMs) are able to answer questions that are unlikely to have been encountered during training. However a diversity of potential applications exist in the broad domain of reasoning systems and considerations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tim Hartill

In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ReasonVQA, for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our dataset is automatically integrated with structured encyclopedic knowledge and constructed using a low-cost framework, which is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duong T. Tran , Trung-Kien Tran , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le Phuoc