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BERTologyNavigator: Advanced Question Answering with BERT-based Semantics

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The development and integration of knowledge graphs and language models has significance in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In this study, we introduce the BERTologyNavigator -- a two-phased system that combines relation extraction techniques and BERT embeddings to navigate the relationships within the DBLP Knowledge Graph (KG). Our approach focuses on extracting one-hop relations and labelled candidate pairs in the first phases. This is followed by employing BERT's CLS embeddings and additional heuristics for relation selection in the second phase. Our system reaches an F1 score of 0.2175 on the DBLP QuAD Final test dataset for Scholarly QALD and 0.98 F1 score on the subset of the DBLP QuAD test dataset during the QA phase.


QAnswer: Towards Question Answering Search over Websites

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Question Answering (QA) is increasingly used by search engines to provide results to their end-users, yet very few websites currently use QA technologies for their search functionality. To illustrate the potential of QA technologies for the website search practitioner, we demonstrate web searches that combine QA over knowledge graphs and QA over free text -- each being usually tackled separately. We also discuss the different benefits and drawbacks of both approaches for web site searches. We use the case studies made of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (namely Wikipedia and Wikidata). Differently from a search engine (e.g. Google, Bing, etc), the data are indexed integrally, i.e. we do not index only a subset, and they are indexed exclusively, i.e. we index only data available on the corresponding website.


Spatial Entity Resolution between Restaurant Locations and Transportation Destinations in Southeast Asia

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Solving this problem can improve precision by removing duplicates, and can enrich detail by (for example) merging a phone Location matters in many businesses and services today, number from one record with the hours of operation particularly for transportation and delivery, scenarios from another, once these records are known to refer in which it is important to find the correct pickup to the same thing. This problem is referred to as entity and drop-off locations very quickly. User experience resolution (see (Talburt, 2011)), and it occurs with can be negatively affected if the location information various datasets, including those representing people, is inaccurate or insufficient. Inaccuracies products, works of literature, etc. can originate from imprecise GPS data, manual error happening in the process of data entry, or the lack of For Grab, one entity resolution problem that arises effective data quality control. Insufficiencies can also for spatial data is the alignment of transportation destinations take many forms, including lack of coverage, and lack and restaurants. Currently Grab maintains of detail -- for example, we may know the latitude two tables separately for transportation and food delivery, and longitude of a restaurant location in a mall, but because each use case requires some specific this might not include information about where passengers features, i.e., food delivery needs information about should be dropped off, or where a delivery the estimated delivery time, cuisine types, and opening courier should park to collect food for delivery. Or hours which are absent in the POI table. However, the location of a business may be known, but not its it is highly likely that some entities from both tables contact details or opening hours.


Wikidata as a seed for Web Extraction

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Wikidata has grown to a knowledge graph with an impressive size. To date, it contains more than 17 billion triples collecting information about people, places, films, stars, publications, proteins, and many more. On the other side, most of the information on the Web is not published in highly structured data repositories like Wikidata, but rather as unstructured and semi-structured content, more concretely in HTML pages containing text and tables. Finding, monitoring, and organizing this data in a knowledge graph is requiring considerable work from human editors. The volume and complexity of the data make this task difficult and time-consuming. In this work, we present a framework that is able to identify and extract new facts that are published under multiple Web domains so that they can be proposed for validation by Wikidata editors. The framework is relying on question-answering technologies. We take inspiration from ideas that are used to extract facts from textual collections and adapt them to extract facts from Web pages. For achieving this, we demonstrate that language models can be adapted to extract facts not only from textual collections but also from Web pages. By exploiting the information already contained in Wikidata the proposed framework can be trained without the need for any additional learning signals and can extract new facts for a wide range of properties and domains. Following this path, Wikidata can be used as a seed to extract facts on the Web. Our experiments show that we can achieve a mean performance of 84.07 at F1-score. Moreover, our estimations show that we can potentially extract millions of facts that can be proposed for human validation. The goal is to help editors in their daily tasks and contribute to the completion of the Wikidata knowledge graph.


On Image Search in Histopathology

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Pathology images of histopathology can be acquired from camera-mounted microscopes or whole slide scanners. Utilizing similarity calculations to match patients based on these images holds significant potential in research and clinical contexts. Recent advancements in search technologies allow for nuanced quantification of cellular structures across diverse tissue types, facilitating comparisons and enabling inferences about diagnosis, prognosis, and predictions for new patients when compared against a curated database of diagnosed and treated cases. In this paper, we comprehensively review the latest developments in image search technologies for histopathology, offering a concise overview tailored for computational pathology researchers seeking effective, fast and efficient image search methods in their work.


Mapping Transformer Leveraged Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Document Representation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The rapid expansion of online information from diverse sources and the growing multilingual nature of the web underscore the escalating significance of information retrieval (IR) and recommender systems (RS). Today's web is no longer limited to a single language, but is increasingly rich in multiple languages, mirroring the multilingual capacities of its global users Steichen et al. [2014], Tashu et al. [2023]. This diversity highlights the urgent need for cross-lingual recommender systems. Traditional recommender systems often prioritize content in a single language, sidelining a wealth of multilingual documents that may hold valuable insights. This gap leads to the emergence of cross-language information access, where recommender systems suggest items in different languages based on user queries Lops et al. [2010], Narducci et al. [2016], Salamon et al. [2021]. Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which have significantly impacted language representation and processing, are pivotal to enhancing information retrieval and recommender systems, especially in the realm of document recom-The result presented in this work is based on Eduard-Raul Kontos's bachelor project while he was at the University of Groningen


A Large-Scale Analysis of Persian Tweets Regarding Covid-19 Vaccination

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The Covid-19 pandemic had an enormous effect on our lives, especially on people's interactions. By introducing Covid-19 vaccines, both positive and negative opinions were raised over the subject of taking vaccines or not. In this paper, using data gathered from Twitter, including tweets and user profiles, we offer a comprehensive analysis of public opinion in Iran about the Coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we applied a search query technique combined with a topic modeling approach to extract vaccine-related tweets. We utilized transformer-based models to classify the content of the tweets and extract themes revolving around vaccination. We also conducted an emotion analysis to evaluate the public happiness and anger around this topic. Our results demonstrate that Covid-19 vaccination has attracted considerable attention from different angles, such as governmental issues, safety or hesitancy, and side effects. Moreover, Coronavirus-relevant phenomena like public vaccination and the rate of infection deeply impacted public emotional status and users' interactions.


Cross-modal Retrieval for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering about Named Entities is a challenging task that requires retrieving information from a multimodal Knowledge Base. Named entities have diverse visual representations and are therefore difficult to recognize. We argue that cross-modal retrieval may help bridge the semantic gap between an entity and its depictions, and is foremost complementary with mono-modal retrieval. We provide empirical evidence through experiments with a multimodal dual encoder, namely CLIP, on the recent ViQuAE, InfoSeek, and Encyclopedic-VQA datasets. Additionally, we study three different strategies to fine-tune such a model: mono-modal, cross-modal, or joint training. Our method, which combines mono-and cross-modal retrieval, is competitive with billion-parameter models on the three datasets, while being conceptually simpler and computationally cheaper.


Learning Unsupervised Semantic Document Representation for Fine-grained Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Document representation is the core of many NLP tasks on machine understanding. A general representation learned in an unsupervised manner reserves generality and can be used for various applications. In practice, sentiment analysis (SA) has been a challenging task that is regarded to be deeply semantic-related and is often used to assess general representations. Existing methods on unsupervised document representation learning can be separated into two families: sequential ones, which explicitly take the ordering of words into consideration, and non-sequential ones, which do not explicitly do so. However, both of them suffer from their own weaknesses. In this paper, we propose a model that overcomes difficulties encountered by both families of methods. Experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on popular SA datasets and a fine-grained aspect-based SA by a large margin.


DREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

While entity-oriented neural IR models have advanced significantly, they often overlook a key nuance: the varying degrees of influence individual entities within a document have on its overall relevance. Addressing this gap, we present DREQ, an entity-oriented dense document re-ranking model. Uniquely, we emphasize the query-relevant entities within a document's representation while simultaneously attenuating the less relevant ones, thus obtaining a query-specific entity-centric document representation. We then combine this entity-centric document representation with the text-centric representation of the document to obtain a "hybrid" representation of the document. We learn a relevance score for the document using this hybrid representation. Using four large-scale benchmarks, we show that DREQ outperforms state-of-the-art neural and non-neural re-ranking methods, highlighting the effectiveness of our entity-oriented representation approach.