We are happy to announce that we got a paper accepted for presentation at EACL21 (European Chapter of the ACL). The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) is the primary professional association for computational linguistics in Europe.
Here is the pre-print of the accepted paper with its abstract:
Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs with Transformer and Graph Attention Networks
By
Endri Kacupaj,
Joan Plepi,
Kuldeep Singh,
Harsh Thakkar,
Jens Lehmann, and
Maria Maleshkova.
Abstract
This paper addresses the task of (complex) conversational question answering over a knowledge graph. For this task, we propose LASAGNE (muLti-task semAntic parSing with trAnsformer and Graph atteNtion nEtworks). It is the first approach, which employs a transformer architecture extended with Graph Attention Networks for multi-task neural semantic parsing. LASAGNE uses a transformer model for generating the base logical forms, while the Graph Attention model is used to exploit correlations between (entity) types and predicates to produce node representations. LASAGNE also includes a novel entity recognition module which detects, links, and ranks all relevant entities in the question context. We evaluate LASAGNE on a standard dataset for complex sequential question answering, on which it outperforms existing baseline averages on all question types. Specifically, we show that LASAGNE improves the F1-score on eight out of ten question types; in some cases, the increase in F1-score is more than 20% compared to the state of the art.
