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QUINT: Interpretable Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

1 Sep 2017EMNLP 2017 9archive 2025-07-28

Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya, Gerhard Weikum

We present QUINT, a live system for question answering over knowledge bases. QUINT automatically learns role-aligned utterance-query templates from user questions paired with their answers. When QUINT answers a question, it visualizes the complete derivation sequence from the natural language utterance to the final answer. The derivation provides an explanation of how the syntactic structure of the question was used to derive the structure of a SPARQL query, and how the phrases in the question were used to instantiate different parts of the query. When an answer seems unsatisfactory, the derivation provides valuable insights towards reformulating the question.

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Named Entity Recognition (NER)Question AnsweringSemantic Parsing

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