Pattern-revising Enhanced Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Bases (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Simple question answering over knowledge bases is one of the most important natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to conduct pattern extraction and entity linking first and put forward pattern revising procedure to mitigate the error propagation problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art in this task by an absolute large margin. |
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