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 …

Santos: Relationship-based semantic table union search

A Khatiwada, G Fan, R Shraga, Z Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Existing techniques for unionable table search define unionability using metadata (tables
must have the same or similar schemas) or column-based metrics (for example, the values …

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 …

Measurement extraction with natural language processing: a review

J Göpfert, P Kuckertz, J Weinand… - Findings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Quantitative data is important in many domains. Information extraction methods draw
structured data from documents. However, the extraction of quantities and their contexts has …

DeepEnroll: patient-trial matching with deep embedding and entailment prediction

X Zhang, C **ao, LM Glass, J Sun - Proceedings of the web conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Clinical trials are essential for drug development but often suffer from expensive, inaccurate
and insufficient patient recruitment. The core problem of patient-trial matching is to find …

Faithful temporal question answering over heterogeneous sources

Z Jia, P Christmann, G Weikum - … of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Template-based question answering over linked geospatial data

D Punjani, K Singh, A Both, M Koubarakis… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Large amounts of geospatial data have been made available recently on the linked open
data cloud and on the portals of many national cartographic agencies (eg, OpenStreetMap …

[PDF][PDF] Knowledge graphs 2021: A data odyssey

G Weikum - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2021 - pure.mpg.de
Providing machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their
relationships has been a long-standing vision and challenge for AI. Over the last 15 years …

Enhancing knowledge bases with quantity facts

VT Ho, D Stepanova, D Milchevski, J Strötgen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Machine knowledge about the world's entities should include quantity properties, such as
heights of buildings, running times of athletes, energy efficiency of car models, energy …