Annervaz K M

Also published as: Annervaz K M


2024

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Precision Empowers, Excess Distracts: Visual Question Answering With Dynamically Infused Knowledge In Language Models
Manas Jhalani | Annervaz K M | Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding external knowledge along with images to respond to questions. We introduce an approach for KBVQA, augmenting the existing vision-language transformer encoder-decoder (OFA) model . Our main contribution involves enhancing questions by incorporating relevant external knowledge extracted from knowledge graphs, using a dynamic triple extraction

2019

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A Sequence Modeling Approach for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text
Jayati Deshmukh | Annervaz K M | Shubhashis Sengupta
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-5)

2018

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Learning beyond Datasets: Knowledge Graph Augmented Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing
Annervaz K M | Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury | Ambedkar Dukkipati
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)

Machine Learning has been the quintessential solution for many AI problems, but learning models are heavily dependent on specific training data. Some learning models can be incorporated with prior knowledge using a Bayesian setup, but these learning models do not have the ability to access any organized world knowledge on demand. In this work, we propose to enhance learning models with world knowledge in the form of Knowledge Graph (KG) fact triples for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Our aim is to develop a deep learning model that can extract relevant prior support facts from knowledge graphs depending on the task using attention mechanism. We introduce a convolution-based model for learning representations of knowledge graph entity and relation clusters in order to reduce the attention space. We show that the proposed method is highly scalable to the amount of prior information that has to be processed and can be applied to any generic NLP task. Using this method we show significant improvement in performance for text classification with 20Newsgroups (News20) & DBPedia datasets, and natural language inference with Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset. We also demonstrate that a deep learning model can be trained with substantially less amount of labeled training data, when it has access to organized world knowledge in the form of a knowledge base.