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TEQUILA: Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

arXiv 1908.03650 ↗First posted 9 Aug 2019cs.IR cs.CLcited by 47

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Question answering over knowledge bases (KB-QA) poses challenges in handling complex questions that need to be decomposed into sub-questions. An important case, addressed here, is that of temporal questions, where cues for temporal relations need to be discovered and handled. We present TEQUILA, an enabler method for temporal QA that can run on top of any KB-QA engine. TEQUILA has four stages. It detects if a question has temporal intent. It decomposes and rewrites the question into non-temporal sub-questions and temporal constraints. Answers to sub-questions are then retrieved from the underlying KB-QA engine. Finally, TEQUILA uses constraint reasoning on temporal intervals to compute final answers to the full question. Comparisons against state-of-the-art baselines show the viability of our method.

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  1. 2021A Dataset for Answering Time-Sensitive Questionscited by 152
  2. 2021QA Dataset Explosion: A Taxonomy of NLP Resources for Question Answering and Reading Comprehensioncited by 91
  3. 2021Complex Temporal Question Answering on Knowledge Graphscited by 69
  4. 2021Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering: A Surveycited by 52
  5. 2023Zero-shot Temporal Relation Extraction with ChatGPTcited by 52
  6. 2022Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Historical Contrastive Learningcited by 42
  7. 2023Towards Benchmarking and Improving the Temporal Reasoning Capability of Large Language Modelscited by 37
  8. 2024Don't Just Say "I don't know"! Self-aligning Large Language Models for Responding to Unknown Questions with Explanationscited by 30
  9. 2023Time-aware Multiway Adaptive Fusion Network for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answeringcited by 27
  10. 2023TempTabQA: Temporal Question Answering for Semi-Structured Tablescited by 27
  11. 2021TempoQR: Temporal Question Reasoning over Knowledge Graphscited by 26
  12. 2022Improving Time Sensitivity for Question Answering over Temporal Knowledge Graphscited by 26
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  1. 2024Question Calibration and Multi-Hop Modeling for Temporal Question Answeringcited by 25
  2. 2021UNIQORN: Unified Question Answering over RDF Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Textcited by 17
  3. 2024UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorizationcited by 17
  4. 2025ChronoSense: Exploring Temporal Understanding in Large Language Models with Time Intervals of Eventscited by 17
  5. 2024PAT-Questions: A Self-Updating Benchmark for Present-Anchored Temporal Question-Answeringcited by 15
  6. 2025TempRetriever: Fusion-based Temporal Dense Passage Retrieval for Time-Sensitive Questionscited by 15
  7. 2023Question Answering as Programming for Solving Time-Sensitive Questionscited by 14
  8. 2024Faithful Temporal Question Answering over Heterogeneous Sourcescited by 13
  9. 2024EvoWiki: Evaluating LLMs on Evolving Knowledgecited by 12
  10. 2022TwiRGCN: Temporally Weighted Graph Convolution for Question Answering over Temporal Knowledge Graphscited by 10
  11. 2023Once Upon a textitTime in textitGraph: Relative-Time Pretraining for Complex Temporal Reasoningcited by 10
  12. 2022A Benchmark for Generalizable and Interpretable Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Basescited by 9
  13. 2024Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering: A Surveycited by 9
  14. 2024Enhancing Temporal Sensitivity and Reasoning for Time-Sensitive Question Answeringcited by 9
  15. 2024Enhancing Temporal Understanding in LLMs for Semi-structured Tablescited by 8
  16. 2023Meta-Learning Based Knowledge Extrapolation for Temporal Knowledge Graphcited by 7
  17. 2025Hypothesis-Driven Feature Manifold Analysis in LLMs via Supervised Multi-Dimensional Scalingcited by 7
  18. 2024ComplexTempQA:A 100m Dataset for Complex Temporal Question Answeringcited by 6
  19. 2023GTRL: An Entity Group-Aware Temporal Knowledge Graph Representation Learning Methodcited by 5
  20. 2024Self-Improvement Programming for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answeringcited by 5
  21. 2026Temp-R1: A Unified Autonomous Agent for Complex Temporal KGQA via Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learningcited by 5
  22. 2022Targeted Extraction of Temporal Facts from Textual Resources for Improved Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Basescited by 3
  23. 2022Semantic Framework based Query Generation for Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Graphscited by 3
  24. 2023Fusing Temporal Graphs into Transformers for Time-Sensitive Question Answeringcited by 3
  25. 2024Simple but Effective Compound Geometric Operations for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 3
  26. 2024Temporally Consistent Factuality Probing for Large Language Modelscited by 2
  27. 2025Discrete Minds in a Continuous World: Do Language Models Know Time Passes?cited by 2
  28. 2025Temporal Referential Consistency: Do LLMs Favor Sequences Over Absolute Time References?cited by 1
  29. 2021Measuring Linguistic Diversity During COVID-19cited by 0
  30. 2021Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Triggered by Memoriescited by 0
  31. 2023Exploring the Limits of Historical Information for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolationcited by 0
  32. 2025MTPChat: A Multimodal Time-Aware Persona Dataset for Conversational Agentscited by 0
  33. 2026Temporal-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Reasoning with Multi-View Fusion for Temporal Question Answeringcited by 0
  34. 2026Let the Agent Search: Autonomous Exploration Beats Rigid Workflows in Temporal Question Answeringcited by 0
  35. 2026SCoP: Structured Constraint Parsing for Evidence-Space Control in Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answeringcited by 0