Enhancing Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs through Evidence Pattern Retrieval

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Autores principales: Ding, Wentao, Li, Jinmao, Luo, Liangchuan, Qu, Yuzhong
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Publicado: 2024
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author Ding, Wentao
Li, Jinmao
Luo, Liangchuan
Qu, Yuzhong
author_facet Ding, Wentao
Li, Jinmao
Luo, Liangchuan
Qu, Yuzhong
contents Information retrieval (IR) methods for KGQA consist of two stages: subgraph extraction and answer reasoning. We argue current subgraph extraction methods underestimate the importance of structural dependencies among evidence facts. We propose Evidence Pattern Retrieval (EPR) to explicitly model the structural dependencies during subgraph extraction. We implement EPR by indexing the atomic adjacency pattern of resource pairs. Given a question, we perform dense retrieval to obtain atomic patterns formed by resource pairs. We then enumerate their combinations to construct candidate evidence patterns. These evidence patterns are scored using a neural model, and the best one is selected to extract a subgraph for downstream answer reasoning. Experimental results demonstrate that the EPR-based approach has significantly improved the F1 scores of IR-KGQA methods by over 10 points on ComplexWebQuestions and achieves competitive performance on WebQuestionsSP.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs through Evidence Pattern Retrieval
Ding, Wentao
Li, Jinmao
Luo, Liangchuan
Qu, Yuzhong
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) methods for KGQA consist of two stages: subgraph extraction and answer reasoning. We argue current subgraph extraction methods underestimate the importance of structural dependencies among evidence facts. We propose Evidence Pattern Retrieval (EPR) to explicitly model the structural dependencies during subgraph extraction. We implement EPR by indexing the atomic adjacency pattern of resource pairs. Given a question, we perform dense retrieval to obtain atomic patterns formed by resource pairs. We then enumerate their combinations to construct candidate evidence patterns. These evidence patterns are scored using a neural model, and the best one is selected to extract a subgraph for downstream answer reasoning. Experimental results demonstrate that the EPR-based approach has significantly improved the F1 scores of IR-KGQA methods by over 10 points on ComplexWebQuestions and achieves competitive performance on WebQuestionsSP.
title Enhancing Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs through Evidence Pattern Retrieval
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02175