Abstract
We tackle the problem of weakly-supervised conversational Question Answering over large Knowledge Graphs using a neural semantic parsing approach. We introduce a new Logical Form (LF) grammar that can model a wide range of queries on the graph while remaining sufficiently simple to generate supervision data efficiently. Our Transformer-based model takes a JSON-like structure as input, allowing us to easily incorporate both Knowledge Graph and conversational contexts. This structured input is transformed to lists of embeddings and then fed to standard attention layers. We validate our approach, both in terms of grammar coverage and LF execution accuracy, on two publicly available datasets, CSQA and ConvQuestions, both grounded in Wikidata. On CSQA, our approach increases the coverage from 80% to 96.2%, and the LF execution accuracy from 70.6% to 75.6%, with respect to previous state-of-the-art results. On ConvQuestions, we achieve competitive results with respect to the state-of-the-art.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.695
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 8813–8829
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2021.emnlp-main.695/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.695
- Cite (ACL):
- Pierre Marion, Pawel Nowak, and Francesco Piccinno. 2021. Structured Context and High-Coverage Grammar for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 8813–8829, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Structured Context and High-Coverage Grammar for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (Marion et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2021.emnlp-main.695.pdf
- Data
- CSQA, ConvQuestions