Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition

Summary: Question answering over knowledge graphs via binary-template decomposition instead of semantic parsers; automated generation of a huge template pool. Index-guided online template decomposition plus two-level disambiguation—entity- and structure-level—improves precision and recall, beating state-of-the-art on benchmarks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11626
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.5461187e-05
Overall Rank: 5,365 | 62.68%
DOI: 10.14778/3236187.3236192

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,204	Maestro: Automatic Generation of Comprehensive Benchmarks for Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	6.3607478e-05
10,991	Online Detection of Anomalies in Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Interpretability	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,496	CBench: Towards Better Evaluation of Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.0006429466
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
266	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00029718727
1,396	Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012204748
3,211	Natural Language Question Answering over RDF — A Graph Data Driven Approach	2014	SIGMOD	7.3743561e-05
3,574	KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases	2017	VLDB	6.9533902e-05
4,050	An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins	2016	VLDB	6.4953612e-05
4,328	How to Build Templates for RDF Question/Answering —An Uncertain Graph Similarity Join Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.2866586e-05
4,684	Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations	2018	VLDB	6.0006406e-05

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