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Nandana Mihindukulasooriya

6 accepted papers

2023

KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text

AAAI 2023technical

We propose KnowGL, a tool that allows converting text into structured relational data represented as a set of ABox assertions compliant with the TBox of a given Knowledge Graph (KG), such as Wikidata. We address this problem as a sequence generation task by leveraging pre-trained sequence-to-sequen…

Cited by 30SourcePDFScholar
2022

A Two-Stage Approach towards Generalization in Knowledge Base Question Answering

EMNLP 2022finding

Most existing approaches for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) focus on a specific underlying knowledge base either because of inherent assumptions in the approach, or because evaluating it on a different knowledge base requires non-trivial changes. However, many popular knowledge bases share…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

Permutation Invariant Strategy Using Transformer Encoders for Table Understanding

NAACL 2022findings

Representing text in tables is essential for many business intelligence tasks such as semantic retrieval, data exploration and visualization, and question answering. Existing methods that leverage pretrained Transformer encoders range from a simple construction of pseudo-sentences by concatenating t…

2022

SYGMA: A System for Generalizable and Modular Question Answering Over Knowledge Bases

EMNLP 2022finding

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) involving complex reasoning is emerging as an important research direction. However, most KBQA systems struggle with generalizability, particularly on two dimensions: (a) across multiple knowledge bases, where existing KBQA approaches are typically tuned to a…

2021

A Semantics-aware Transformer Model of Relation Linking for Knowledge Base Question Answering

ACL 2021short

Relation linking is a crucial component of Knowledge Base Question Answering systems. Existing systems use a wide variety of heuristics, or ensembles of multiple systems, heavily relying on the surface question text. However, the explicit semantic parse of the question is a rich source of relation i…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2021

Open Knowledge Graphs Canonicalization using Variational Autoencoders

EMNLP 2021main

Noun phrases and Relation phrases in open knowledge graphs are not canonicalized, leading to an explosion of redundant and ambiguous subject-relation-object triples. Existing approaches to solve this problem take a two-step approach. First, they generate embedding representations for both noun and r…