EWEK-QA : Enhanced Web and Efficient Knowledge Graph Retrieval for Citation-based Question Answering Systems (2024.acl-long)
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Mohammad Dehghan, Mohammad Alomrani, Sunyam Bagga, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Khalil Bibi, Abbas Ghaddar, Yingxue Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Jianye Hao, Qun Liu, Jimmy Lin, Boxing Chen, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mahdi Biparva, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
| Challenge: | citation-based QA systems are suffering from two shortcomings . they usually rely only on web as a source of extracted knowledge and external knowledge sources can hamper the efficiency of the system. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a web-based knowledge graph retrieval solution to enrich extracted knowledge fed to a citation-based QA system. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms open-source state-of-the-art models in 7 quantitative and human evaluation tasks. |
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