• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.319-330
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• 2021

Recently, in the field of open domain natural language question answering, multi-task, multi-hop question answering has been studied extensively. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network model using hierarchical graphs to answer effectively such multi-task, multi-hop questions. The proposed model extracts different levels of contextual information from multiple paragraphs using hierarchical graphs and graph neural networks, and then utilize them to predict answer type, supporting sentences and answer spans simultaneously. Conducting experiments with the HotpotQA benchmark dataset, we show high performance and positive effects of the proposed model.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.243-250
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• 2020

Knowledge graph-based question answering not only requires deep understanding of the given natural language questions, but it also needs effective reasoning to find the correct answers on a large knowledge graph. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network model for effective reasoning on a knowledge graph, which can find correct answers to complex questions requiring multi-hop inference. The proposed model makes use of highly expressive bilinear graph neural network (BGNN), which can utilize context information between a pair of neighboring nodes, as well as allows bidirectional feature propagation between each entity node and one of its neighboring nodes on a knowledge graph. Performing experiments with an open-domain knowledge base (Freebase) and two natural-language question answering benchmark datasets(WebQuestionsSP and MetaQA), we demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.984-987
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• 2020

최근 오픈 도메인 자연어 질문 응답 분야에서는 폭넓은 다중 문서들을 토대로 다중 홉 추론과 동시에 서로 다른 수준의 여러 문제들을 한꺼번에 해결해야 하는 다중 작업 질문 응답에 관한 관심이 높다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다중 홉 추론과 다중 작업을 요구하는 복잡 질문들에 효과적으로 응답하기 위해, 계층적 그래프 기반의 새로운 심층 신경망 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델에서는 계층적 그래프와 그래프 신경망을 이용해 다중 문서들로부터 서로 다른 수준의 맥락 정보를 얻어낸 후, 이들을 활용하여 뒷받침 문장들, 답변 영역, 응답 유형 등을 동시에 구해야 하는 다중 작업 문제에 관한 답들을 예측해낸다. 본 논문에서는 오픈 도메인 자연어 질문 응답 데이터 집합인 HotpotQA를 이용한 실험들을 통해, 제안 모델의 긍정적 효과를 입증한다.