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QA Is the New KR: Question-Answer Pairs as Knowledge Bases

2022/07/01 by Wenhu Chen, Chen, Wenhu, William W. Cohen +11
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.00630

openalex publication_date 2022/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this position paper, we propose a new approach to generating a type of knowledge base (KB) from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional symbolic KB: in particular, it consists of small modular components, which can be combined compositionally to answer complex queries, including relational queries and queries involving "multi-hop" inferences. However, unlike a traditional KB, this information store is well-aligned with common user information needs.

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