Challenge: Existing semantic parsing frameworks for conversational question answering do not handle uncertain reasoning . qa over large knowledge bases has attracted broad interest due to the popularity of intelligent virtual assistants .
Approach: They propose a fuzzy semantic parsing framework that defines fuzzy comparison operations in grammar for uncertain reasoning based on fuzzy set theory.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art models on a large-scale conversational question answering benchmark.

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