no code implementations • 17 May 2025 • Philipp Christmann, Gerhard Weikum
Question answering over mixed sources, like text and tables, has been advanced by verbalizing all contents and encoding it with a language model.
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2024 • Philipp Christmann, Gerhard Weikum
This article presents the QUASAR system for question answering over unstructured text, structured tables, and knowledge graphs, with unified treatment of all sources.
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no code implementations • 11 Oct 2024 • Philipp Christmann, Svitlana Vakulenko, Ionut Teodor Sorodoc, Bill Byrne, Adrià De Gispert
Long-form question answering (LFQA) aims at generating in-depth answers to end-user questions, providing relevant information beyond the direct answer.
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2024 • Zhen Jia, Philipp Christmann, Gerhard Weikum
The method has three stages: (i) understanding the question and its temporal conditions, (ii) retrieving evidence from all sources, and (iii) faithfully answering the question.
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no code implementations • 21 Jun 2023 • Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Gerhard Weikum
Fact-centric question answering (QA) often requires access to multiple, heterogeneous, information sources.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2023 • Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Gerhard Weikum
In conversational question answering, users express their information needs through a series of utterances with incomplete context.
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no code implementations • 25 Apr 2022 • Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Gerhard Weikum
Conversational question answering (ConvQA) tackles sequential information needs where contexts in follow-up questions are left implicit.
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1 code implementation • 19 Aug 2021 • Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Gerhard Weikum
Answering complex questions over knowledge bases (KB-QA) faces huge input data with billions of facts, involving millions of entities and thousands of predicates.
1 code implementation • 8 Oct 2019 • Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Abdalghani Abujabal, Jyotsna Singh, Gerhard Weikum
Fact-centric information needs are rarely one-shot; users typically ask follow-up questions to explore a topic.