Uni-Parser: Unified Semantic Parser for Question Answering on Knowledge Base and Database

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05165v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 19:33:27 GMT
• Title: Uni-Parser: Unified Semantic Parser for Question Answering on Knowledge Base and Database
• Authors: Ye Liu, Semih Yavuz, Rui Meng, Dragomir Radev, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou
• Abstract summary: We propose a unified semantic element for question answering (QA) on both knowledge bases (KB) and databases (DB) We introduce the primitive (relation and entity in KB, table name, column name and cell value in DB) as an essential element in our framework. We leverage the generator to predict final logical forms by altering and composing topranked primitives with different operations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Parsing natural language questions into executable logical forms is a useful and interpretable way to perform question answering on structured data such as knowledge bases (KB) or databases (DB). However, existing approaches on semantic parsing cannot adapt to both modalities, as they suffer from the exponential growth of the logical form candidates and can hardly generalize to unseen data. In this work, we propose Uni-Parser, a unified semantic parser for question answering (QA) on both KB and DB. We introduce the primitive (relation and entity in KB, and table name, column name and cell value in DB) as an essential element in our framework. The number of primitives grows linearly with the number of retrieved relations in KB and DB, preventing us from dealing with exponential logic form candidates. We leverage the generator to predict final logical forms by altering and composing topranked primitives with different operations (e.g. select, where, count). With sufficiently pruned search space by a contrastive primitive ranker, the generator is empowered to capture the composition of primitives enhancing its generalization ability. We achieve competitive results on multiple KB and DB QA benchmarks more efficiently, especially in the compositional and zero-shot settings.

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