Title
TEQUILA: Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Bases.
Abstract
Question answering over knowledge bases (KB-QA) poses challenges in handling complex questions that need to be decomposed into sub-questions. An important case, addressed here, is that of temporal questions, where cues for temporal relations need to be discovered and handled. We present TEQUILA, an enabler method for temporal QA that can run on top of any KB-QA engine. TEQUILA has four stages. It detects if a question has temporal intent. It decomposes and rewrites the question into non-temporal sub-questions and temporal constraints. Answers to sub-questions are then retrieved from the underlying KB-QA engine. Finally, TEQUILA uses constraint reasoning on temporal intervals to compute final answers to the full question. Comparisons against state-of-the-art baselines show the viability of our method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3269206.3269247
CIKM
Field
DocType
ISBN
Enabling,Question answering,Information retrieval,Computer science,Baseline (configuration management),Constraint reasoning
Conference
978-1-4503-6014-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
19
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Jia130.76
Abdalghani Abujabal2111.50
Rishiraj Saha Roy311215.17
Jannik Strötgen449238.20
Gerhard Weikum5127102146.01