Bidirectional Attentive Memory Networks for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for knowledge base question answering ignore subtle inter-relationships between the question and the KB. |
| Approach: | They propose to model the two-way flow of interactions between questions and KBs using a bidirectional attentive memory network. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on the WebQuestions benchmark and offers better interpretability compared to baselines. |
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