Following Occam’s Razor: Dynamic Combination of Structured Knowledge for Multi-Hop Question Answering using LLMs (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Multi-hop question answering is a challenging task that requires capturing information from multiple positions in multiple documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for integrating text-based and triple-based paradigms that incorporates structured knowledge into large-scale question answering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves multi-hop question answering by incorporating structured knowledge into the models. |
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