COQA Detailed Project Plan Release
The detailed project plan is released! Below is a preview of the plan.
Preview
Knowledge base question answering (KB-QA) has been a topic of much interest and study in both academic and industrial fields. The goal of KB-QA is to construct a question-answering (QA) system that parses a question proposed by the user and leverages its supporting knowledge base (KB) to answer the question. The performance of a QA system is therefore heavily reliant on the precision, structure and completeness of its underlying KB.
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This project investigates how entity resolutioncan be done by canonicalization (i.e., mapping each name into a canonical form) and how canonicalization enables more effective question answering through redundancy detection, KB compression and knowledge population. ...