History Semantic Graph Enhanced Conversational KBQA with Temporal Information Modeling

Hao Sun, Yang Li, Liwei Deng, Bowen Li, Binyuan Hui, Binhua Li, Yunshi Lan, Yan Zhang, Yongbin Li

Main: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Main-poster Paper

Poster Session 5: Dialogue and Interactive Systems (Poster)
Conference Room: Frontenac Ballroom and Queen's Quay
Conference Time: July 11, 16:15-17:45 (EDT) (America/Toronto)
Global Time: July 11, Poster Session 5 (20:15-21:45 UTC)
Keywords: conversational modeling
TLDR: Context information modeling is an important task in conversational KBQA. However, existing methods usually assume the independence of utterances and model them in isolation. In this paper, we propose a History Semantic Graph Enhanced KBQA model (HSGE) that is able to effectively model long-range se...
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Abstract: Context information modeling is an important task in conversational KBQA. However, existing methods usually assume the independence of utterances and model them in isolation. In this paper, we propose a History Semantic Graph Enhanced KBQA model (HSGE) that is able to effectively model long-range semantic dependencies in conversation history while maintaining low computational cost. The framework incorporates a context-aware encoder, which employs a dynamic memory decay mechanism and models context at different levels of granularity. We evaluate HSGE on a widely used benchmark dataset for complex sequential question answering. Experimental results demonstrate that it outperforms existing baselines averaged on all question types.