RGR-KBQA: Generating Logical Forms for Question Answering Using Knowledge-Graph-Enhanced Large Language Model (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) face hallucination problems, resulting in low accuracy. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-generate-retrieve framework that uses a Retrieve-Generate framework to retrieve factual knowledge from a knowledge graph. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that RGR-KBQA improves on CWQ and WebQSP datasets. |
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