The state of the art in open domain complex question answering: a survey

R Etezadi, M Shamsfard - Applied Intelligence, 2023‏ - Springer
Research on question answering (QA) systems has a long tradition. QA systems, as widely
used systems in various applications, seek to find the answers to the given questions …

Towards benchmarking and improving the temporal reasoning capability of large language models

Q Tan, HT Ng, L Bing - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.08952, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Reasoning about time is of fundamental importance. Many facts are time-dependent. For
example, athletes change teams from time to time, and different government officials are …

Interactive question answering systems: Literature review

GM Biancofiore, Y Deldjoo, TD Noia… - ACM Computing …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Question-answering systems are recognized as popular and frequently effective means of
information seeking on the web. In such systems, information seekers can receive a concise …

Boosting question answering over knowledge graph with reward integration and policy evaluation under weak supervision

X Bi, H Nie, G Zhang, L Hu, Y Ma, X Zhao… - Information Processing …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Among existing knowledge graph based question answering (KGQA) methods, relation
supervision methods require labeled intermediate relations for stepwise reasoning. To avoid …

A survey on narrative extraction from textual data

B Santana, R Campos, E Amorim, A Jorge… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2023‏ - Springer
Narratives are present in many forms of human expression and can be understood as a
fundamental way of communication between people. Computational understanding of the …

Streamingqa: A benchmark for adaptation to new knowledge over time in question answering models

A Liska, T Kocisky, E Gribovskaya… - International …, 2022‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Knowledge and language understanding of models evaluated through question
answering (QA) has been usually studied on static snapshots of knowledge, like Wikipedia …

Multi-granularity temporal question answering over knowledge graphs

Z Chen, J Liao, X Zhao - Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting …, 2023‏ - aclanthology.org
Recently, question answering over temporal knowledge graphs (ie, TKGQA) has been
introduced and investigated, in quest of reasoning about dynamic factual knowledge. To …

Tempoqr: temporal question reasoning over knowledge graphs

C Mavromatis, PL Subramanyam… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract 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 …

Conversational question answering on heterogeneous sources

P Christmann, R Saha Roy, G Weikum - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Conversational question answering (ConvQA) tackles sequential information needs where
contexts in follow-up questions are left implicit. Current ConvQA systems operate over …

Explainable conversational question answering over heterogeneous sources via iterative graph neural networks

P Christmann, R Saha Roy, G Weikum - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
In conversational question answering, users express their information needs through a
series of utterances with incomplete context. Typical ConvQA methods rely on a single …