Question Answering

Project Goal:  Interactive Question Answering => Chatbot/Dialog Systems

Publications

1. What It Takes to Achieve 100% Condition Accuracy on WikiSQL,
   by S. Yavuz, I. Gur, Y. Su, X. Yan,
   EMNLP'18 (Proc. of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) [pdf]
2. XL-NBT: A Cross-lingual Neural Belief Tracking Framework,
   by W. Chen, J. Chen, Y. Su, X. Wang, D. Yu, X. Yan and W. Wang, 
   EMNLP'18 (Proc. of the 2018 Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) [pdf]
3. DialSQL: Dialogue Based Structured Query Generation,
   by I. Gur, S. Yavuz, Y. Su, X. Yan,
   ACL'18 (Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018) [pdf]
4. Scalable Construction and Querying of Massive Knowledge Bases (Tutorial),
   by X. Ren, Y. Su, P. Szekely, X. Yan.
   WWW'18 (Proc. of the International Conference on World Wide Web), 2018 [website][slides1][slides2][slides3]
5. Construction and Querying of Large-scale Knowledge Bases (Tutorial),
   by X. Ren, Y. Su, X. Yan.
   CIKM'17(Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), 2017 [website][slides]
6. Cross-domain Semantic Parsing via Paraphrasing, 
   by Y. Su, X. Yan. 
   EMNLP'17 (Proc. of the 2017 Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), 2017 [pdf]
7. Recovering Question Answering Errors via Query Revision,
   by S. Yavuz, I. Gur, Y. Su, X. Yan. 
   EMNLP'17 (Proc. of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), 2017 [pdf]
8. On Generating Characteristic-rich Question Sets for QA Evaluation,
   by Y. Su, H. Sun, B. Sadler, M. Srivatsa, I. Gur, Z. Yan, and X. Yan,
   EMNLP'16 (Proc. of the 2016 Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) 2016 [pdf]
9. Improving Semantic Parsing via Answer Type Inference,
   by S. Yavuz, I. Gur, Y. Su, M. Srivatsa, X. Yan,
   EMNLP'16 (Proc. of the 2016 Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), 2016 [pdf]
10. Semantic SPARQL Similarity Search Over RDF Knowledge Graphs,
    by W. Zheng, L. Zou, W. Peng, X. Yan, S. Song, D. Zhao,
    VLDB'16 (Prof. of the 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases), 2016. [pdf]
11. Exploiting Relevance Feedback in Knowledge Graph Search,
    by Y. Su, S. Yang, H. Sun, M. Srivatsa, S. Kase, M. Vanni and X. Yan,
    KDD'15 (Proc. of Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), 2015 [pdf]
12. SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System,
    by S. Yang, Y. Xie, Y. Wu, T. Wu, H. Sun, J. Wu, X. Yan,
    SIGMOD'14 (Proc. 2014 Int. Conf. on Management of Data) (demo paper), 2014. [pdf]
13. Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying,
    by S. Yang, Y. Wu, H. Sun, X. Yan,
    VLDB'14 (Proc. of the 40th Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases), 2014. [pdf]