Title
Large-Scale Question Answering with Joint Embedding and Proof Tree Decoding
Abstract
Question answering (QA) over a large-scale knowledge base (KB) such as Freebase is an important natural language processing application. There are linguistically oriented semantic parsing techniques and machine learning motivated statistical methods. Both of these approaches face a key challenge on how to handle diverse ways natural questions can be expressed about predicates and entities in the KB. This paper is to investigate how to combine these two approaches. We frame the problem from a proof-theoretic perspective, and formulate it as a proof tree search problem that seamlessly unifies semantic parsing, logic reasoning, and answer ranking. We combine our word entity joint embedding learned from web-scale data with other surface-form features to further boost accuracy improvements. Our real-time system on the Freebase QA task achieved a very high F1 score (47.2) on the standard Stanford WebQuestions benchmark test data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2806416.2806616
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Search problem,Knowledge base,F1 score,Embedding,Question answering,Ranking,Information retrieval,Test data,Parsing
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenghao Wang1275.22
Shengquan Yan200.68
Huaming Wang303.38
Xuedong Huang41390283.19