Natural Language-based User Guidance for Knowledge Graph Exploration: A User Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Witschel ◽  
Kaspar Riesen ◽  
Loris Grether
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6057
Author(s):  
Ching-Han Chen ◽  
Ming-Fang Shiu ◽  
Shu-Hui Chen

Dialogue in natural language is the most important communication method for the visually impaired. Therefore, the dialogue system is the main subsystem in the visually impaired navigation system. The purpose of the dialogue system is to understand the user’s intention, gradually establish context through multiple conversations, and finally provide an accurate destination for the navigation system. We use the knowledge graph as the basis of reasoning in the dialogue system, and then update the knowledge graph so that the system gradually conforms to the user’s background. Based on the experience of using the knowledge graph in the navigation system of the visually impaired, we expect that the same framework can be applied to more fields in order to improve the practicality of natural language dialogue in human–computer interaction.


Author(s):  
Yuxuan Shi ◽  
Gong Cheng ◽  
Trung-Kien Tran ◽  
Evgeny Kharlamov ◽  
Yulin Shen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Miaoyuan Shi

With the development of deep learning and its wide application in the field of natural language, the question and answer research of knowledge graph based on deep learning has gradually become the focus of attention. After that, the natural language query is converted into a structured query sentence to identify the entities and attributes in the user’s natural language query and the specified entities and attributes are used to retrieve answers to the knowledge graph. Using the advantage of deep learning in capturing sentence information, it incorporates the attention mechanism to obtain the semantic vector of the relevant attributes in the query and uses the parameter sharing mechanism to insert candidate attributes into the triple in the same model to obtain the semantic vector of typical candidates. The experiment measured that under the 100,000 RDF dataset, the single entity query of the MIQE model does not exceed 3 seconds, and the connection query does not exceed 5 seconds. Under the one-million RDF dataset, the single entity query of the MIQE model does not exceed 8 seconds, and the connection query will not be more than 10 seconds. Experimental data show that the system of knowledge-answering questions of engineering of intelligent construction based on deep learning has good horizontal scalability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN CHÍ HIẾU

Knowledge Graphs are applied in many fields such as search engines, semantic analysis, and question answering in recent years. However, there are many obstacles for building knowledge graphs as methodologies, data and tools. This paper introduces a novel methodology to build knowledge graph from heterogeneous documents.  We use the methodologies of Natural Language Processing and deep learning to build this graph. The knowledge graph can use in Question answering systems and Information retrieval especially in Computing domain


Author(s):  
Lin Xu ◽  
Qixian Zhou ◽  
Ke Gong ◽  
Xiaodan Liang ◽  
Jianheng Tang ◽  
...  

Beyond current conversational chatbots or task-oriented dialogue systems that have attracted increasing attention, we move forward to develop a dialogue system for automatic medical diagnosis that converses with patients to collect additional symptoms beyond their self-reports and automatically makes a diagnosis. Besides the challenges for conversational dialogue systems (e.g. topic transition coherency and question understanding), automatic medical diagnosis further poses more critical requirements for the dialogue rationality in the context of medical knowledge and symptom-disease relations. Existing dialogue systems (Madotto, Wu, and Fung 2018; Wei et al. 2018; Li et al. 2017) mostly rely on datadriven learning and cannot be able to encode extra expert knowledge graph. In this work, we propose an End-to-End Knowledge-routed Relational Dialogue System (KR-DS) that seamlessly incorporates rich medical knowledge graph into the topic transition in dialogue management, and makes it cooperative with natural language understanding and natural language generation. A novel Knowledge-routed Deep Q-network (KR-DQN) is introduced to manage topic transitions, which integrates a relational refinement branch for encoding relations among different symptoms and symptomdisease pairs, and a knowledge-routed graph branch for topic decision-making. Extensive experiments on a public medical dialogue dataset show our KR-DS significantly beats stateof-the-art methods (by more than 8% in diagnosis accuracy). We further show the superiority of our KR-DS on a newly collected medical dialogue system dataset, which is more challenging retaining original self-reports and conversational data between patients and doctors.


Author(s):  
Meghan Chandarana ◽  
Erica L. Meszaros ◽  
Anna Trujillo ◽  
B. Danette Allen

As the number of viable applications for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems increases at an exponential rate, interfaces that reduce the reliance on highly skilled engineers and pilots must be developed. Recent work aims to make use of common human communication modalities such as speech and gesture. This paper explores a multimodal natural language interface that uses a combination of speech and gesture input modalities to build complex UAV flight paths by defining trajectory segment primitives. Gesture inputs are used to define the general shape of a segment while speech inputs provide additional geometric information needed to fully characterize a trajectory segment. A user study is conducted in order to evaluate the efficacy of the multimodal interface.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1601 ◽  
pp. 032057
Author(s):  
Guilei Wang ◽  
Yue Tao ◽  
Haixu Ma ◽  
Tong Bao ◽  
Jingmiao Yang

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Uyar ◽  
Farouk Musa Aliyu

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand three main aspects of semantic web search engines of Google Knowledge Graph and Bing Satori. The authors investigated: coverage of entity types, the extent of their support for list search services and the capabilities of their natural language query interfaces. Design/methodology/approach – The authors manually submitted selected queries to these two semantic web search engines and evaluated the returned results. To test the coverage of entity types, the authors selected the entity types from Freebase database. To test the capabilities of natural language query interfaces, the authors used a manually developed query data set about US geography. Findings – The results indicate that both semantic search engines cover only the very common entity types. In addition, the list search service is provided for a small percentage of entity types. Moreover, both search engines support queries with very limited complexity and with limited set of recognised terms. Research limitations/implications – Both companies are continually working to improve their semantic web search engines. Therefore, the findings show their capabilities at the time of conducting this research. Practical implications – The results show that in the near future the authors can expect both semantic search engines to expand their entity databases and improve their natural language interfaces. Originality/value – As far as the authors know, this is the first study evaluating any aspect of newly developing semantic web search engines. It shows the current capabilities and limitations of these semantic web search engines. It provides directions to researchers by pointing out the main problems for semantic web search engines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D’Souza ◽  
Sören Auer

Abstract Purpose This work aims to normalize the NlpContributions scheme (henceforward, NlpContributionGraph) to structure, directly from article sentences, the contributions information in Natural Language Processing (NLP) scholarly articles via a two-stage annotation methodology: 1) pilot stage—to define the scheme (described in prior work); and 2) adjudication stage—to normalize the graphing model (the focus of this paper). Design/methodology/approach We re-annotate, a second time, the contributions-pertinent information across 50 prior-annotated NLP scholarly articles in terms of a data pipeline comprising: contribution-centered sentences, phrases, and triple statements. To this end, specifically, care was taken in the adjudication annotation stage to reduce annotation noise while formulating the guidelines for our proposed novel NLP contributions structuring and graphing scheme. Findings The application of NlpContributionGraph on the 50 articles resulted finally in a dataset of 900 contribution-focused sentences, 4,702 contribution-information-centered phrases, and 2,980 surface-structured triples. The intra-annotation agreement between the first and second stages, in terms of F1-score, was 67.92% for sentences, 41.82% for phrases, and 22.31% for triple statements indicating that with increased granularity of the information, the annotation decision variance is greater. Research limitations NlpContributionGraph has limited scope for structuring scholarly contributions compared with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine) scholarly knowledge at large. Further, the annotation scheme in this work is designed by only an intra-annotator consensus—a single annotator first annotated the data to propose the initial scheme, following which, the same annotator reannotated the data to normalize the annotations in an adjudication stage. However, the expected goal of this work is to achieve a standardized retrospective model of capturing NLP contributions from scholarly articles. This would entail a larger initiative of enlisting multiple annotators to accommodate different worldviews into a “single” set of structures and relationships as the final scheme. Given that the initial scheme is first proposed and the complexity of the annotation task in the realistic timeframe, our intra-annotation procedure is well-suited. Nevertheless, the model proposed in this work is presently limited since it does not incorporate multiple annotator worldviews. This is planned as future work to produce a robust model. Practical implications We demonstrate NlpContributionGraph data integrated into the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), a next-generation KG-based digital library with intelligent computations enabled over structured scholarly knowledge, as a viable aid to assist researchers in their day-to-day tasks. Originality/value NlpContributionGraph is a novel scheme to annotate research contributions from NLP articles and integrate them in a knowledge graph, which to the best of our knowledge does not exist in the community. Furthermore, our quantitative evaluations over the two-stage annotation tasks offer insights into task difficulty.


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