OKBQA 2016

Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop at COLING, December 11 2016 | Osaka, Japan

Introduction

The huge and rapidly increasing amount of structured and unstructured data available on the Web makes it both possible and necessary to support users in finding relevant information. The trend moves more and more towards smart knowledge services that are able to find information, aggregate them, draw inferences, and present succinct answers without requiring the user to wade through a large number of documents. The novel avenues made possible by knowledge services are numerous and diverse, including ubiquitous information access (from smartphones, tablets, smart watches, etc.), barrier-free access to data (especially for the blind and disabled) and knowledge discovery.

Over the last years, several challenges and calls for research projects have pointed out the dire need for pushing natural language interfaces. In this context, the importance of Semantic Web data as a premier knowledge source is rapidly increasing. But we are still far from having accurate natural language interfaces that allow handling complex information needs in a user-centric and highly performant manner. The development of such interfaces requires the collaboration of a range of different fields, including natural language processing, information extraction, knowledge base construction and population, reasoning, and question answering.

The main goal of this workshop is to join forces in the collaborative development of open frameworks for knowledge extraction and question answering, to share standards, and to foster the creation of an ecosystem of tools and benchmarks. The workshop will therefore not only comprise short and long paper presentations but also a hands-on session on already existing frameworks, standards, and benchmarking campaigns, as well as a social meet-up.

Invited Speakers

Featured Talks

Proceedings

The proceedings of OKBQA 2016 are available here.

Program

Sunday, December 11, 2016
9:00–9:10Opening
9:10–10:00Keynote by Sebastian Riedel, "Inferbeddings: Reading, Reasoning and Programming with Vector Representations"
10:00–10:20Featured Talk by Jin-Dong Kim, "Introduction to OKBQA framework: toward an open community collaboration for QA pipelines"
10:20–10:50Break
 Session oral 1
10:50–11:20Using Wikipedia and Semantic Resources to Find Answer Types and Appropriate Answer Candidate Sets in Question Answering
Po-Chun Chen, Meng-Jie Zhuang and Chuan-Jie Lin
11:20–11:50Large-Scale Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge via a Quiz Game on a Dialogue System
Naoki Otani, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Nobuhiro Kaji and Manabu Sassano
11:50–12:00Poster Lightning Talks
12:00–14:00Lunch (Setting of the poster)
14:00–14:45Keynote by Noriko Kando
 Session oral 2
14:45–15:05A Hierarchical Neural Network for Information Extraction of Product Attribute and Condition Sentences
Yukinori Homma, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kyosuke Nishida, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hisako Asano and Yoshihiro Matsuo
15:05–15:25Combining Lexical and Semantic-based Features for Answer Sentence Selection
Jing Shi, Jiaming Xu, Yiqun Yao, Suncong Zheng and Bo Xu
15:25–16:00Break, Poster session
 Session poster
 An Entity-Based approach to Answering Recurrent and Non-Recurrent Questions with Past Answers
Anietie Andy, Mugizi Rwebangira and Satoshi Sekine
 Answer Presentation in Question Answering over Linked Data using Typed Dependency Subtree Patterns
Rivindu Perera and Parma Nand
 BioMedLAT Corpus: Annotation of the Lexical Answer Type for Biomedical Questions
Mariana Neves and Milena Kraus
 Double Topic Shifts in Open Domain Conversations: Natural Language Interface for a Wikipedia-based Robot Application
Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock
 Filling a Knowledge Graph with a Crowd
GyuHyeon Choi, Sangha Nam, Dongho Choi and KEY-SUN CHOI
 Pairing Wikipedia Articles Across Languages
Marcus Klang and Pierre Nugues
 SRDF: Extracting Lexical Knowledge Graph for Preserving Sentence Meaning
Sangha Nam, GyuHyeon Choi, Younggyun Hahm and KEY-SUN CHOI
 [INVITED] Tree transducer induction for Question-Answering over Large Knowledge Bases
Pascual Martínez
 Session oral 3
16:00–16:20QAF: Frame Semantics-based Question Interpretation
Younggyun Hahm, Sangha Nam and KEY-SUN CHOI
16:20–16:40Answering Yes-No Questions by Penalty Scoring in History Subjects of University Entrance Examinations
Yoshinobu Kano
16:40–17:00Dedicated Workflow Management for OKBQA Framework
Jiseong Kim, GyuHyeon Choi and KEY-SUN CHOI
17:00–17:10Closing
Monday, December 12, 2016
9:00–12:00 Comittee meeting, wrap-up


Paper Submissions

OKBQA 2016 solicits the submission of original research papers in two types:

Please use the COLING-2016 style file http://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/coling2016.zip
It has LaTeX files, Microsoft Word templeate file, and a sample PDF file.

Before submitting your paper please ensure you have read the Instructions for Authors and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the following address https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/OKBQA2016/.

Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the workshop and attend to present the paper.

Topics

Specific topics include but are not limited to:

Important Dates

Organizers

Programme Committee

Contact Information

For further information about the workshop, please contact at: okbqa @ world . kaist . ac . kr