@inproceedings{xie-etal-2020-worldtree,
title = "{W}orld{T}ree V2: A Corpus of Science-Domain Structured Explanations and Inference Patterns supporting Multi-Hop Inference",
author = "Xie, Zhengnan and
Thiem, Sebastian and
Martin, Jaycie and
Wainwright, Elizabeth and
Marmorstein, Steven and
Jansen, Peter",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.671",
pages = "5456--5473",
abstract = "Explainable question answering for complex questions often requires combining large numbers of facts to answer a question while providing a human-readable explanation for the answer, a process known as multi-hop inference. Standardized science questions require combining an average of 6 facts, and as many as 16 facts, in order to answer and explain, but most existing datasets for multi-hop reasoning focus on combining only two facts, significantly limiting the ability of multi-hop inference algorithms to learn to generate large inferences. In this work we present the second iteration of the WorldTree project, a corpus of 5,114 standardized science exam questions paired with large detailed multi-fact explanations that combine core scientific knowledge and world knowledge. Each explanation is represented as a lexically-connected {``}explanation graph{''} that combines an average of 6 facts drawn from a semi-structured knowledge base of 9,216 facts across 66 tables. We use this explanation corpus to author a set of 344 high-level science domain inference patterns similar to semantic frames supporting multi-hop inference. Together, these resources provide training data and instrumentation for developing many-fact multi-hop inference models for question answering.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
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%T WorldTree V2: A Corpus of Science-Domain Structured Explanations and Inference Patterns supporting Multi-Hop Inference
%A Xie, Zhengnan
%A Thiem, Sebastian
%A Martin, Jaycie
%A Wainwright, Elizabeth
%A Marmorstein, Steven
%A Jansen, Peter
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Blache, Philippe
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Cieri, Christopher
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Isahara, Hitoshi
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Hélène
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
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%G English
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%X Explainable question answering for complex questions often requires combining large numbers of facts to answer a question while providing a human-readable explanation for the answer, a process known as multi-hop inference. Standardized science questions require combining an average of 6 facts, and as many as 16 facts, in order to answer and explain, but most existing datasets for multi-hop reasoning focus on combining only two facts, significantly limiting the ability of multi-hop inference algorithms to learn to generate large inferences. In this work we present the second iteration of the WorldTree project, a corpus of 5,114 standardized science exam questions paired with large detailed multi-fact explanations that combine core scientific knowledge and world knowledge. Each explanation is represented as a lexically-connected “explanation graph” that combines an average of 6 facts drawn from a semi-structured knowledge base of 9,216 facts across 66 tables. We use this explanation corpus to author a set of 344 high-level science domain inference patterns similar to semantic frames supporting multi-hop inference. Together, these resources provide training data and instrumentation for developing many-fact multi-hop inference models for question answering.
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%P 5456-5473
Markdown (Informal)
[WorldTree V2: A Corpus of Science-Domain Structured Explanations and Inference Patterns supporting Multi-Hop Inference](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.671) (Xie et al., LREC 2020)
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