Machine knowledge: Creation and curation of comprehensive knowledge bases

G Weikum, XL Dong, S Razniewski… - … and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Equip** machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their
relationships has been a longstanding goal of AI. Over the last decade, large-scale …

Transformer models used for text-based question answering systems

K Nassiri, M Akhloufi - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
The question answering system is frequently applied in the area of natural language
processing (NLP) because of the wide variety of applications. It consists of answering …

Reveal: Retrieval-augmented visual-language pre-training with multi-source multimodal knowledge memory

Z Hu, A Iscen, C Sun, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model
(REVEAL) that learns to encode world knowledge into a large-scale memory, and to retrieve …

Feverous: Fact extraction and verification over unstructured and structured information

R Aly, Z Guo, M Schlichtkrull, J Thorne… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Fact verification has attracted a lot of attention in the machine learning and natural language
processing communities, as it is one of the key methods for detecting misinformation …

Kg-fid: Infusing knowledge graph in fusion-in-decoder for open-domain question answering

D Yu, C Zhu, Y Fang, W Yu, S Wang, Y Xu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Current Open-Domain Question Answering (ODQA) model paradigm often contains a
retrieving module and a reading module. Given an input question, the reading module …

Open domain question answering over tables via dense retrieval

J Herzig, T Müller, S Krichene… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in open-domain QA have led to strong models based on dense retrieval,
but only focused on retrieving textual passages. In this work, we tackle open-domain QA …

Reinforcement learning from reformulations in conversational question answering over knowledge graphs

M Kaiser, R Saha Roy, G Weikum - … of the 44th international ACM SIGIR …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The rise of personal assistants has made conversational question answering (ConvQA) a
very popular mechanism for user-system interaction. State-of-the-art methods for ConvQA …

Challenges in information-seeking QA: Unanswerable questions and paragraph retrieval

A Asai, E Choi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.11915, 2020 - arxiv.org
Recent pretrained language models" solved" many reading comprehension benchmarks,
where questions are written with access to the evidence document. However, datasets …

Beyond NED: fast and effective search space reduction for complex question answering over knowledge bases

P Christmann, R Saha Roy, G Weikum - … on web search and data mining, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Answering complex questions over knowledge bases (KB-QA) faces huge input data with
billions of facts, involving millions of entities and thousands of predicates. For efficiency, QA …