A Graph Representation of Semi-structured Data for Web Question Answering (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies treat semi-structured data as flat documents with pieces of text . semi-structural data is more effective to represent rich relational information . question answering is an important feature in most search engines . |
| Approach: | They propose a graph representation of Web tables and lists based on categorization of components and their relations . they also develop reasoning techniques on the graph model for the question answering task . |
| Outcome: | The proposed graph improves F1 score by 3.90 points over the state-of-the-art baselines on real datasets. |
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