Complex Question Answering on knowledge graphs using machine translation and multi-task learning

Saurabh Srivastava, Mayur Patidar, Sudip Chowdhury, Puneet Agarwal, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Gautam Shroff


Abstract
Question answering (QA) over a knowledge graph (KG) is a task of answering a natural language (NL) query using the information stored in KG. In a real-world industrial setting, this involves addressing multiple challenges including entity linking, multi-hop reasoning over KG, etc. Traditional approaches handle these challenges in a modularized sequential manner where errors in one module lead to the accumulation of errors in downstream modules. Often these challenges are inter-related and the solutions to them can reinforce each other when handled simultaneously in an end-to-end learning setup. To this end, we propose a multi-task BERT based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model to address these challenges. Through experimental analysis, we demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed approach on one publicly available and one proprietary dataset.
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2021.eacl-main.300
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Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
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April
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2021
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Online
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Paola Merlo, Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3428–3439
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.300
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.300
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Saurabh Srivastava, Mayur Patidar, Sudip Chowdhury, Puneet Agarwal, Indrajit Bhattacharya, and Gautam Shroff. 2021. Complex Question Answering on knowledge graphs using machine translation and multi-task learning. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 3428–3439, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Complex Question Answering on knowledge graphs using machine translation and multi-task learning (Srivastava et al., EACL 2021)
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Data
MetaQA