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Can Generative Pre-trained Language Models Serve As Knowledge Bases for Closed-book QA?

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Wang, Cunxiang, Liu, Pai, Zhang, Yue·2021·Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Cunxiang Wang, Pai Liu, Yue Zhang. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2021.

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  • Large language models have the ability to retrieve factual knowledge as explicit knowledge bases, presenting an opportunity to construct more comprehensive knowledge graphs within recommender systems.

    “The ability of Large Language Models to retrieve factual knowledge as explicit knowledge bases [53-56, 56-61] has been stirred discussed, which presents an opportunity to construct more comprehensive knowledge graphs within recommender systems.”

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Authors
Wang, C., Liu, P., & Zhang, Y.
Affiliations
Westlake University (CN)
Venue
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2021
Pages
3241-3251
OpenAlex
W3176793246
Cited by
55
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 3
FWCI
5.31
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
knowledge base, closed-book question answering, large language models, question answering

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