Intent Identification for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Feifei Dai, Chong Feng, Zhiqiang Wang, Yuxia Pei, Heyan Huang

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Abstract

With the rapid growth of data, knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is becoming more and more important. However, most existing methods of KBQA take every word in the question into account, leading to serious semantic confusion of the question and low efficiency of the question answering (QA) System. Therefore, we proposed an intent identification method to wipe off irrelevant words to decrease the semantic influence. By locating, expanding and disambiguating the subject and its attributes of questions, we not only obviously decrease the time cost of KBQA but also greatly reduce the amount of data processing and search space. Furthermore, by incorporating Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to model questions and answer candidates, the top ranking candidates can be easily identified as answers. Experiments on an well-known track of NLPCC 2016 dataset show that the average F1 score is 75.26%, which is much higher than previous methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, TAAI 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages96-99
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538642030
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 May 2018
Event2017 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, TAAI 2017 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 1 Dec 20173 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, TAAI 2017

Conference

Conference2017 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, TAAI 2017
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period1/12/173/12/17

Keywords

  • convolutional neural networks
  • entity linking system
  • knowledge base question answering
  • question intent identification

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