The objective of knowledge graph question answering is to assist users in answering questions by utilizing the information stored within the graph. Users are not required to comprehend the underlying data structure. This is a difficult task because, on the one hand, correctly understanding the semantics of a problem is difficult for machines. On the other hand, the growing knowledge graph will inevitably lead to information retrieval errors. Specifically, the question-answering task has three difficulties: word abbreviation, object complement, and entity ambiguity. An object complement means that different entities share the same predicate, and entity ambiguity means that words have different meanings in different contexts. To solve these problems, we propose a novel method named the Chunked Learning Network. It uses different models according to different scenarios to obtain a vector representation of the topic entity and relation in the question. The answer entity representation that yields the closest fact triplet, according to a joint distance metric, is returned as the answer. For sentences with an object complement, we use dependency parsing to construct dependency relationships between words to obtain more accurate vector representations. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
18 June 2025 in ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
Transfer learning plays a crucial role in low-resource machine translation by addressing the challenge of poor model performance due to limited data in low-resource languages, thereby improving translation accuracy. Current research methods not only utilize pre-trained parent models for parameter initialization and fine-tuning but also use the soft labels output by these parent models to enhance the consistency between parent and child models. However, even if the parent model performs well, there are still instances where certain token predictions are unstable. During training, if the child model incorporates these unstable token predictions, it can hinder its learning effectiveness; the child model might not fully comprehend the parent model’s prediction strategy, potentially affecting overall translation performance. To address this, we propose a training strategy called Token-Level Filter Training, designed to effectively filter out unstable token predictions from the parent model, thereby transferring the parent model’s positive knowledge to the child model. Additionally, we introduce a hierarchical ranking loss method to help the child model better learn the parent model’s prediction strategies and sequence order, thus enhancing translation accuracy and fluency. Experimental results show that our method outperforms baseline methods on the public datasets Global Voices (Id, Ca, Hu, Pl) and WMT17 (Turkish–English), with BLEU score improvements of 1.47, 0.91, 0.50, 0.54, and 0.55, respectively. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.