Xinyi Zheng
2020
Answering Complex Questions by Combining Information from Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases
Nikita Bhutani
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Xinyi Zheng
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Kun Qian
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Yunyao Li
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H. Jagadish
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces
Knowledge-based question answering (KB_QA) has long focused on simple questions that can be answered from a single knowledge source, a manually curated or an automatically extracted KB. In this work, we look at answering complex questions which often require combining information from multiple sources. We present a novel KB-QA system, Multique, which can map a complex question to a complex query pattern using a sequence of simple queries each targeted at a specific KB. It finds simple queries using a neural-network based model capable of collective inference over textual relations in extracted KB and ontological relations in curated KB. Experiments show that our proposed system outperforms previous KB-QA systems on benchmark datasets, ComplexWebQuestions and WebQuestionsSP.