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CASQAD – A New Dataset for Context-Aware Spatial Question Answering

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The task of factoid question answering (QA) faces new challenges when applied in scenarios with rapidly changing context information, for example on smartphones. Instead of asking who the architect of the “Holocaust Memorial” in Berlin was, the same question could be phrased as “Who was the architect of the many stelae in front of me?” presuming the user is standing in front of it. While traditional QA systems rely on static information from knowledge bases and the analysis of named entities and predicates in the input, question answering for temporal and spatial questions imposes new challenges to the underlying methods. To tackle these challenges, we present the Context-aware Spatial QA Dataset (CASQAD) with over 5,000 annotated questions containing visual and spatial references that require information about the user’s location and moving direction to compose a suitable query. These questions were collected in a large scale user study and annotated semi-automatically, with appropriate measures to ensure the quality.

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Notes

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    He designed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe https://www.visitberlin.de/en/memorial-murdered-jews-europe.

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    A visibility engine computes, which objects are visible from the user’s point of view.

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    https://casqad.sda.tech/.

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    A HIT describes the micro tasks a requester posts to the workers on Amazon’s platform, also known as a “project”.

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    Using state-of-the-art models from https://spacy.io/.

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    https://www.google.com/intl/en/streetview/.

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    https://www.visit-hannover.com/en/Sightseeing-City-Tours/Sightseeing/City-tours.

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    https://www.openstreetmap.org.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population.

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    All meta information is provided by Google’s Street View API https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/.

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    We removed manually questions such as “Who am I?”.

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    https://www.openstreetmap.org.

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    https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/places.

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    https://www.wikidata.org/.

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    Even though we instructed the turkers to phrase only one question per input frame, not all followed the instruction.

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    https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/group/research---innovations.html.

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  3. Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany

    Jens Lehmann

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Rose, J., Lehmann, J. (2020). CASQAD – A New Dataset for Context-Aware Spatial Question Answering. In: Pan, J.Z., et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020. ISWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62466-8_1

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