Automatic Chinese knowledge-based question answering by the MGBA-LSTM-CNN model

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Liu, Wenyuan | Fan, Mingliang | Feng, Kai | Guo, Dingding^{; *}

Affiliations: The Key Laboratory of Software Engineering of Hebei Province, School of Information Science and Engineering (School of Software), Yanshan University, Hebei, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: guodingding@ysu.edu.cn.

Abstract: The purpose of knowledge-based question answering (KBQA) is to accurately answer the questions raised by users through knowledge triples. Traditional Chinese KBQA methods rely heavily on artificial features, resulting in unsatisfactory QA results. To solve the above problems, this paper divides Chinese KBQA into two parts: entity extraction and attribute mapping. In the entity extraction stage, the improved Bi-LSTM-CNN-CRF model is used to identify the entity of questions and the Levenshtein distance method is used to resolve the entity link error. In the attribute mapping stage, according to the characteristics of questions and candidate attributes, the MGBA-LSTM-CNN model is proposed to encode questions and candidate attributes from the semantic level and word level, respectively, and splice them into new semantic vectors. Finally, the cosine distance is used to measure the similarity of the two vectors to find candidate attributes most similar to questions. The experimental results show that the system achieves good results in the Chinese question and answer data set.

Keywords: KBQA, named entity recognition, attribute mapping, attention mechanism

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-210003

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 93-110, 2023