Knowledge Base Question Answering for Intelligent Maintenance of Power Plants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Li ◽  
Yufei Zhang ◽  
Hongwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Intelligent Maintenance

scholarly journals Formal Query Building with Query Structure Prediction for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongrui Chen ◽  
Huiying Li ◽  
Yuncheng Hua ◽  
Guilin Qi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Structure Prediction ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
State Transition ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Transition Strategy ◽  
Query Structure ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Complex Question

Formal query building is an important part of complex question answering over knowledge bases. It aims to build correct executable queries for questions. Recent methods try to rank candidate queries generated by a state-transition strategy. However, this candidate generation strategy ignores the structure of queries, resulting in a considerable number of noisy queries. In this paper, we propose a new formal query building approach that consists of two stages. In the first stage, we predict the query structure of the question and leverage the structure to constrain the generation of the candidate queries. We propose a novel graph generation framework to handle the structure prediction task and design an encoder-decoder model to predict the argument of the predetermined operation in each generative step. In the second stage, we follow the previous methods to rank the candidate queries. The experimental results show that our formal query building approach outperforms existing methods on complex questions while staying competitive on simple questions.

scholarly journals A Pretraining Numerical Reasoning Model for Ordinal Constrained Question Answering on Knowledge Base

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Feng ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Gaole He ◽  
Wayne Xin Zhao ◽  
Lemao Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Numerical Reasoning

Data mining for building knowledge bases: techniques, architectures and applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Krzywicki ◽  
Wayne Wobcke ◽  
Michael Bain ◽  
John Calvo Martinez ◽  
Paul Compton
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Event Extraction ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Knowledge Mining ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Unstructured Text

AbstractData mining techniques for extracting knowledge from text have been applied extensively to applications including question answering, document summarisation, event extraction and trend monitoring. However, current methods have mainly been tested on small-scale customised data sets for specific purposes. The availability of large volumes of data and high-velocity data streams (such as social media feeds) motivates the need to automatically extract knowledge from such data sources and to generalise existing approaches to more practical applications. Recently, several architectures have been proposed for what we callknowledge mining: integrating data mining for knowledge extraction from unstructured text (possibly making use of a knowledge base), and at the same time, consistently incorporating this new information into the knowledge base. After describing a number of existing knowledge mining systems, we review the state-of-the-art literature on both current text mining methods (emphasising stream mining) and techniques for the construction and maintenance of knowledge bases. In particular, we focus on mining entities and relations from unstructured text data sources, entity disambiguation, entity linking and question answering. We conclude by highlighting general trends in knowledge mining research and identifying problems that require further research to enable more extensive use of knowledge bases.

Robust cross-lingual knowledge base question answering via knowledge distillation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaofei Wang ◽  
Depeng Dang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Student Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Final Performance ◽  
Knowledge Distillation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross Lingual

PurposePrevious knowledge base question answering (KBQA) models only consider the monolingual scenario and cannot be directly extended to the cross-lingual scenario, in which the language of questions and that of knowledge base (KB) are different. Although a machine translation (MT) model can bridge the gap through translating questions to the language of KB, the noises of translated questions could accumulate and further sharply impair the final performance. Therefore, the authors propose a method to improve the robustness of KBQA models in the cross-lingual scenario.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a knowledge distillation-based robustness enhancement (KDRE) method. Specifically, first a monolingual model (teacher) is trained by ground truth (GT) data. Then to imitate the practical noises, a noise-generating model is designed to inject two types of noise into questions: general noise and translation-aware noise. Finally, the noisy questions are input into the student model. Meanwhile, the student model is jointly trained by GT data and distilled data, which are derived from the teacher when feeding GT questions.FindingsThe experimental results demonstrate that KDRE can improve the performance of models in the cross-lingual scenario. The performance of each module in KBQA model is improved by KDRE. The knowledge distillation (KD) and noise-generating model in the method can complementarily boost the robustness of models.Originality/valueThe authors first extend KBQA models from monolingual to cross-lingual scenario. Also, the authors first implement KD for KBQA to develop robust cross-lingual models.

Predicting Lexical Answer Types in Open Domain QA

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo ◽  
Aditya Kalyanpur
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Open Domain ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Research Challenge ◽  
Lexical Knowledge Base

Automatic open-domain Question Answering has been a long standing research challenge in the AI community. IBM Research undertook this challenge with the design of the DeepQA architecture and the implementation of Watson. This paper addresses a specific subtask of Deep QA, consisting of predicting the Lexical Answer Type (LAT) of a question. Our approach is completely unsupervised and is based on PRISMATIC, a large-scale lexical knowledge base automatically extracted from a Web corpus. Experiments on the Jeopardy! data shows that it is possible to correctly predict the LAT in a substantial number of questions. This approach can be used for general purpose knowledge acquisition tasks such as frame induction from text.

scholarly journals O ONTOLOGY-BASED PARAGRAPH EXTRACTION AND CAUSALITY DETECTION-BASED SIMILARITY FOR ANSWERING WHY-QUESTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
A A I N Eka Karyawati
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Domain Ontology ◽  
Typical Problem ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Method Performance ◽  
Question Answering System ◽  
Selection For

Paragraph extraction is a main part of an automatic question answering system, especially in answering why-question. It is because the answer of a why-question usually contained in one paragraph instead of one or two sentences. There have been some researches on paragraph extraction approaches, but there are still few studies focusing on involving the domain ontology as a knowledge base. Most of the paragraph extraction studies used keyword-based method with small portion of semantic approaches. Thus, the question answering system faces a typical problem often occuring in keyword-based method that is word mismatches problem. The main contribution of this research is a paragraph scoring method that incorporates the TFIDF-based and causality-detection-based similarity. This research is a part of the ontology-based why-question answering method, where ontology is used as a knowledge base for each steps of the method including indexing, question analyzing, document retrieval, and paragraph extraction/selection. For measuring the method performance, the evaluations were conducted by comparing the proposed method over two baselines methods that did not use causality-detection-based similarity. The proposed method shown improvements over the baseline methods regarding MRR (95%, 0.82-0.42), P@1 (105%, 0.78-0.38), P@5(91%, 0.88-0.46), Precision (95%, 0.80-0.41), and Recall (66%, 0.88-0.53).

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