Knowledge Graph Question-Answering Method Based on Neural Networks

Basilia Muakuku Obono, Wei Liu

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1113270                

Abstract

Knowledge Graph (KG) and neural network (NN) based Question-answering (QA) systems have evolved into the realm of intelligent information retrieval as they have been able to reach a high level of precision in terms of capturing user-to-query understanding. However, more traditional systems still face various stumbling blocks, including those with limited data sources, incomplete feature extraction, and low accuracy. This research represents a question-answer system to implement deep learning technology linked with knowledge graphs applied to KGs and neural networks to tackle these inefficiencies. The knowledge base is subjected to the model and it is then used to predict the necessary entities for the user to select the answer from the options displayed. From the experiments, it is clear that the implementation is more reliable and effective than previous processes. The paper introduces a prototype application that can graphically display Q&A results, and this includes a dual-data-source model for upgrading question understanding and increasing accuracy.

Keywords

Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Neural Networks, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Movie Dataset

1. Introduction

The advancement of semantic web technology and automated information processing systems has led to the creation of a large amount of structured information, which is typically in a machine-readable format and interoperable across different platforms. A prominent example of these structures is Knowledge Graph (KG), which is a specialized data model based on graphics representing complex relationships and information. Due to its rich expressive power and ability to store detailed information, data access in KG is typically conducted through formal query languages such as SPARQL and GRAPHQL [1], which have clear syntax and semantics.

However, using these formal query languages requires users to understand the syntax and basic structure of KG, which makes them a challenge for non-expert users.

To address this issue, the Knowledge Graph Question Answering System (KGQA) aims to provide an easy-to-use interface that allows people to ask questions in natural language and obtain concise answers by querying KG. These systems are used in popular applications, including search engines such as Google Search [2] and Bing [3], as well as virtual assistants such as Siri [4], Alexa, and Google Assistant [5]. They also adapt to specific domain scenarios, such as Facebook Graph Search [6] and IBM Watson [7].

[8] developed a wide range of methods for KGQA. Traditional methods typically involve a combination of template extraction, feature engineering, and semantic analysis techniques, while the latest methods utilize neural networks and employ various structures such as neural embedding, attention-based recursive models, and memory-enhanced neural controllers.

This work does not include all existing methods, but the focus is on KGQA methods based on representative neural networks, some of which are extracted from related fields, such as semantic analysis from text to SQL. This section provides essential concepts for understanding KGQA, including a formal definition of knowledge graphs, an overview of formal query languages, and a description of the KGQA task.

Knowledge Graphs:

A knowledge graph (see Figure 1) is a set of data points connected by relationships that describe a domain, for example, a company, an organization or a field of study [9]. It is an effective way to represent data because knowledge graphs can be created automatically and then explored to reveal new knowledge about the domain. The concept of knowledge graphs is inspired by graph theory.

A knowledge graph consists of three main components: nodes, edges, and labels. Any object, location, or person can be a node. The boundary defines the relationships between nodes. For example, nodes can be clients such as IBM or agents such as Ogilvy.

One advantage would be to classify this relationship as a customer relationship between IBM and Ogilvy.

2. Literature Review

2.1. Knowledge Graphs: Definition and Applications

Amidst the huge volume of information we have to deal with in the age of today,

Figure 1. Knowledge graphs.

finding an effective way to extract processes and information is the critical part which is becoming more and more important with each passing day [10]. On the other side, many organizations are confronted with the challenge of gathering and using this information properly, which in turn allows them to make well-informed decisions. At this point, knowledge graphs (KGs) are another crucial factor. In a recent study, they are defined as powerful data science tools that offer a completely new and innovative way of organizing, managing, and analyzing information. KGs are, in short, a powerful concept in the world of data science; in knowledge graph, a thorough look at information is made by assembling data as interconnected concepts, events, relationships, and entities which, consequently, helps the organizations to be able to unveil hidden patterns and trends in large data sets [11].

Acoustic Word Error Rate (WER) is a very informative tool in digital language processing for speech recognition having transformed the unstructured speech that machines could not understand into reasonable text using natural language processing (NLP) and artificial vision [12]. The graphs get a new meaning as they combine with the semantic source of different documents. Thus, the intelligence of data research increases, and, therefore, more successful decisions can be made. Firstly, knowledge graphs appear in machine learning models as they give a structured presentation of the knowledge which then eliminates bad predictions, recommendations, and classifications. Hence, in turn, they stuff holes from capturing complex relationships which otherwise would spoil the analyzing process by classifying the interconnected data elements in a more accurate way. The rest are carried through AI, facilitating machines to do tasks, thus encouraging more discrete data analysis and decision-making [12].

What is a Knowledge Graph? Definition

Knowledge graphs, also referred to as semantic networks, are a graphical representation of knowledge that is built with the help of a graph-based data model [13]. It is meant to organize and merge the data gathered from different sources. They provide data about different entities and their connections. The structure of knowledge graphs is most often three elements: nodes, edges, and labels. Here, the nodes are entities like people, places, events, objects, and so on, and the edges define the relations between the nodes. For instance, in the case of a business, nodes might include employees, organizations, and locations and edges denote the connections between them. Knowledge graphs work as a framework with a structured way of presenting information. Information is collected through human, automated, or semi-automated methods to ensure that it is easily interpreted and verified, which is crucial. The facts are stored as an SPO triple (Subject-Predicate-Object) that follows RDF (Resource Description Framework) standards [14]. These triples make explicit certain relational structures between the entities and are used very frequently in knowledge representation, data science, natural language processing, and machine learning for their clarity and the fact that they lead to efficient computations.

The SPO format can be expressed as:

$\text{SPO}=\left(\text{Subject,}\mathrm{Pr}\text{edicate, Object}\right)$

where:

• Subject is the entity or thing the statement is about.

• Predicate is the relationship between the subject and object.

• Object is the entity or thing the subject is related to.

Knowledge graphs make AI and machine learning more powerful by transforming unstructured data into structured formats using text mining and information extraction, thus increasing model performance. So, AI systems can now also identify subtle, intricate data interactions and hence can come out with more accurate predictions as shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2. Knowledge graph interacting with AI models.

2.2. Question-Answering Systems: Overview and Challenges

Question-answering (QA) systems are computer programs that are supposed to search and retrieve answers to user questions, usually in natural language [15]. They have transitioned from the crude form of mere keyword searching to sophisticated models capable of understanding the semantics and the ambiguity of language. There are three types of QA systems: open-domain, closed-domain, and hybrid. Open-domain systems can answer any kind of question, while closed-domain systems are domain-specific. Hybrid systems operate using selected traits from both approaches.

The QA systems face certain issues. Not all of them, but one of the primary obstacles is difficulty in understanding a particular language. It involves not only the capture of several nuances, context, and ambiguity but also not being accurate or irrelevant. This makes a major problem, as [16] noted. The other significant issue is that there is a great amount of unmanageable data that QA systems are not able to retrieve. QA systems have structured data sources as the main links. However, these can be incomplete, outdated, or biased. Moreover, the evaluation of QA systems stands as another challenge, given that the correct evaluation metrics or answers themselves are not always known to discern the one within the wide list of options.

2.3. Neural Network Approaches for Knowledge Graph Question-Answering

Neural networks are the working model for the human brain, composed of artificial neurons that are subtly interconnected and work together to solve problems. Neurons communicate with each other by transmitting signals; thus, they function as brain cells. These networks are organized in layers, where the connection strength between neurons is represented by various weights.

Each neuron gets an input parameter (named p) and multiplies it by weight (named w). Later on, a bias (b) is added to the multiplication and the result is given through the activation function. A simple formula for a single artificial neuron is:

$\text{N}=\text{w}\cdot \text{p}+\text{b}$

where:

• N is the net input to the neuron.

• W is the weight linked to the input.

• P is the input to the neuron.

• B is the bias.

The computation of the output a is done with the help of an activation function f that is a function of the net input n:

$\text{a}=\left(\text{n}\right)=\text{f}\left(\text{w}\cdot \text{p}+\text{b}\right)$

Limiting functions hardlim (a strong limiting function), logsig (a logarithmic sigmoid function), and purlin (a linear function) are among the most common functions that are used in neural networks.

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM):

LSTM, a type of RNN, was proposed in an effort to overcome the so-called long-term dependency problem of recurrent networks. The first temporal gating concept, introduced in 1997 by [17], laid the foundational work for the solution of addressing the vanishing gradient and the necessity of storing the network state in the long-term memory. There are two-dimensional parts of LSTMs: cell state (Ct) for the long-term and hidden state (ht) for short-term memories. LSTMs employ three major gates to fine-tune the data flow such as the forget gate, the input gate, and the output gate.

The core LSTM update equations are as follows:

Forget Gate:

$\text{Ft}=\sigma \left(\text{Wf}\cdot \left[\text{ht}-1,\text{xt}\right]+\text{bf}\right)$

Input Gate:

$\text{It}=\sigma \left(\text{Wi}\cdot \left[\text{ht}-1,\text{xt}\right]+\text{bi}\right)$

Cell Update:

$\text{C}^\text{t}=\tanh \left(\text{WC}\cdot \left[\text{ht}-1,\text{xt}\right]+\text{bC}\right)$

Final Cell State:

$\text{Ct}=\text{f}t\cdot \text{Ct}-1+\text{it}\cdot \text{C}^\text{t}$

Hidden State Output:

$\text{ht}=\text{ot}\cdot \text{tanh}\left(\text{Ct}\right)$

here:

For the activation function of the forget gate, σ represents the sigmoid function.

For the element-wise multiplication of

$\text{CAttention}\left(\text{Q},\text{K},\text{V}\right)=\text{soft}\max \left(\text{Q}\text{K}\text{T}\text{d}\text{}\text{k}\right)$

where:

• Q is the query matrix.

• K is the key matrix.

V is the value matrix.

dkd is the dimension of the key vectors.

The structure of the practical Encoder and the logical character of the Decoder are the two elements of Transformer to make this combination work. They are configured to work in a translation task, in which, an encoder will process the source sequence and then a decoder will output the target sequence.

Advantages of Transformers: Parallelization: They are not RNNs; thus, they are quick learners; they can train all once through with all tokens, so they process it faster than RNNs can.

Long-Range Dependencies: The ability of the model, through self-attention, to grasp the relationships among all tokens of any length directly has a positive impact on all the longer subsequences.

Models like BERT and GPT, which originated from the basis of Transformers, currently exist at the highest level in NLP. Now, these models are utilized in addition to the usual NLP and computer vision and audio processing.

• Q is the query matrix.

• K is the key matrix.

• V is the value matrix.

• Kdk is the dimension of the key vectors.

Parallelization: They are not RNNs; thus, they are quick learners; they can train all once through with all tokens, so they process it faster than RNNs can.

Long-Range Dependencies: The ability of the model through self-attention to directly grasp the relationships among all tokens of any length has a positive impact on all the longer subsequences.

3. Methodology

3.1. Methodology Overview

This research is a methodological design with the purpose of calculating some knowledge-based graphics, making sure to employ reliable techniques and also carrying out supervised learning experiments and neural network structural design analysis to achieve certain ends as the case area may demand, with the final task of coming up with conclusions and recommendations for the future. This research goal is to investigate the possibility of Question-Answering (QA) system, which will consist of BERT taken from the transformers library capturing such relationships between graphs from the computer vision as well as the neural network. Hence, the machine will defend formulas at various stages and justify the times and methods they should be used to check for the best results.

Research Design

The building of knowledge graphs (KG) includes the process where it is necessary to identify the patterns covered and related causes from a large source of data. One of the main difficulties in proper graph building is treating unstructured data with care and giving the relationships between the nodes in such a way that the scalability of the system to process databases is never compromised. Traditional ways that formal query languages such as SPARQL and RDF are used in computer science and manual graph-building are usually the best options for further knowledge. Nevertheless, both these methods have to face some issues. Moreover, once the knowledge graph is established, the problem of querying it to obtain cohesive natural language questions is another big concern that persists. It is even more than that. Phrasing the questions with subtle meanings and looking at the questions in the context of them can also be another issue.

Running a Neo4j application with the help of cypher code, like in the case of creating a KGQA system, can be very simple and require only a single line of code. In the end, the obtained query result can be returned in the appropriate language or format you need, you only need to concatenate or transform it before inserting something from configuration variables or database values. In these ways, you will be able to divide the result to some use in your application.

Reaching the peak of QA systems is not really just about pulling out data from KG, but doing it efficiently and effectively at the same time. Neural networks are at the heart of this semantic processing stage and are responsible for the query’s clear interpretation as well as for its mapping to relevant parts of the KG. This involves picking an appropriate neural network architecture, assuring high accuracy, and keeping in mind the performance’s exponential nature in connection to the usefulness of the system. In order to achieve this, Python provides a variety of deep learning libraries, e.g., TensorFlow and PyTorch, which are frequently used in creating and training neural networks.

The general formula that describes a QA system is:

$\text{A}=\text{A}\left(\text{Q},\text{R}\left(\text{<msup> Q <mo>′</mo> </msup>}\right)\right)$

where:

• Q = User’s question

• R(Q') = Information retrieval process based on the question Q'

• A = The final answer returned by the system

For the QA application, the question text is encoded using a model (such as BERT through the transformers library) that is already trained on a large dataset, which is a simple one-to-one mapping of the question to a dense vector representation. The vector is further processed by a neural network to answer the question in the context of the knowledge graph.

3.2. Data Collection and Preprocessing

The first step in the process of creating the system is to set the Python environment up and install the libraries which are needed for the project. For instance, the google.colab library is being used to enable the easy installation process of Google Drive in the Colab environment, thereby providing quick access to files on Google Drive. After that, the required Python packages are installed, including PDF Reader, Instructor Embedding, and Bert for Question Answering, using the PIP installation program.

The reasoning for each problem is that the predicted answer is the most probable answer:

$\text{Correct}\text{Answer}=\text{argmax}\left(\text{Predicted}\text{Answer}\right)$

Data is processed using Bert Tokenizer and Bert for Question Answering. Make sure you have installed the right packages needed for the preprocessing pipeline.

BERT Tokenizer

BERT uses sub-words-based tokenization. Subword tokenization splits unknown words into smaller units or characters, allowing the model to infer meaning from these tokens. For example, “boys” is split into “boy” and “s”.

The following formalized text represents the tokenization process:

$\begin{array}{l}\text{Token}\text{IDs}\\ =\text{Token}\text{IDs}\text{from}\text{Vocabulary}\left(\left[\left[\text{CLS}\right],\text{Token}1,\text{Token}2,\cdots ,\text{TokenN},\left[\text{SEP}\right]\right]\right)\end{array}$

where:

[CLS] and [SEP] tokens are added as the first and the last before text for the sequence respectively.

BERT for Question Answering

BERT for Question Answering mainly involves two steps: tokenization of the input and prediction of the start and the end positions of the answer span in the passage. The tokenized input sequence is structured as:

Input

$\text{Tokens}=\left[\left[\text{CLS}\right],\text{Q}1,\text{Q}2,\cdots ,\text{Qm},\left[\text{SEP}\right],\text{C}1,\text{C}2,\cdots ,\text{Cn},\left[\text{SEP}\right]\right]$

where:

• Q1, Q2, ..., Qm are the tokens representing the question.

• C1, C2, ..., Cn are the tokens representing the context (document or passage).

The start and end positions of the answer are calculated as:

$\text{SL}=\text{Wshi}+\text{bs},\text{EL}=\text{Wehi}+\text{be}$

The final predicted answer is extracted based on the start and end indices:

Predicted Answer = Context[S: E+1]

Thus, BERT predicts a span of text in the context that answers the given question, leveraging its bidirectional architecture for context-based understanding.

3.3. Data Analysis Techniques

In QA systems, data analysis is a significant part of the process. The entire purpose now is learning from the data by finding patterns and giving this model the ability to examine and return with accurate search results. Moreover, we are also interested in movie-related data (e.g., movie titles, directed by, produced by, acted in by) for training and evaluation purposes.

The preprocessing step includes the normalization and tokenization of the input data:

Preprocessed

$\text{Text}=\text{Normalize}\left(\text{Tokenize}\left(\text{Q},\text{C}\right)\right)$

where:

• Q is the question.

• C is the context (document or passage).

• Tokenize () separates the input into the tokens (the model can split them into words or sub-words).

• Normalize () is a process that consists of several operations such as lowercasing, removing punctuation, and handling contractions.

The normalized and tokenized input (referred to as normalized and tokenized written part) is sent to the model followed by the generated answer and the computation of the probability:

$\text{A}=\text{Model}\left(\text{Q},\text{C}\right)$

where AAA is the output answer. The system is usually trained with a Cross-Entropy Loss function that calculates the distance between the predicted answer and the real answer:

$\text{Loss}=-\sum t=1\text{TP}\left(\text{At}|\text{Q},\text{C}\right)\log \text{P}\left(\text{At}|\text{Q},\text{C}\right)$

where:

T is the answer sequence’s length

P(At∣Q,C) is the probability of the token at the position t in the predicted sequence.

3.4. Neural Network Architecture for Question-Answering

Neural networks implementing QA systems are composed of several interconnected components, where all the parts work together to process the input and give answers in the correct manner. The most popular architectures for QA are:

QANet: It uses a multi-layered design that is built specifically for the processing challenges of question-answer applications.

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs): These models directly use the structure of the knowledge graph to understand the question and give the correct answer.

Transformer-based Architectures: They mainly apply the self-attention mechanism in a context where the question and knowledge graph are provided efficiently.

Yet one more promising approach: Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (MANN), which possess supplementary storage of memory to allow the model to retrieve and use additional knowledge during the answering process to answer the question correctly.

3.5. Evaluation Metrics for QA Systems

Evaluation metrics are of the essence to verify the functioning of QA systems. The following are the most common metrics of the QA system:

Exact Match (EM): is a metric that calculates how the exactness of the answer equals the ground truth answer.

EM = 1 if the predicted answer matches ground truth0if predicted answer does not match

Perplexity: this is the metric of the language model that shows the ability to predict the next word in a sequence. Lower perplexity indicates more accurate predictions.

$\text{Perplexity}=\exp \left(1\text{N}\sum i=1\text{N}\log \text{P}\left(\text{wi}\right)\right)$

Here, P(wi) is the predicted probability of the i-th word, and N is the length of the sequence.

These metrics along with others give a more complete picture of the working capacity of a QA system. They delve into different aspects of the answer such as accuracy, relevance, and fluency which in turn give you valuable insights into areas for improvement.

4. Data Description

The data description in paper is crucial for ensuring the accurate and efficient operation of machine learning models, especially those used in question-answering systems. This includes several steps, such as cleaning the data, converting it into a format suitable for neural networks, and embedding information to prepare the input model. In this section, in terms of the experimental environment setting the experimental code is mainly based on python framework. For a given input sequence, the BERT model computes a pair of logits for each token one for the Start Position and the other for the end Position.

Let x₁, x₂, …, x_n be the sequence of tokens.

Let H₁, H₂, …, H_N be the hidden states (embeddings) produced by BERT for each token in sequence.

S = BERT(H₁, H₂, …, H_N) logist for start position/P_start

E = BERT(H₁, H₂, …, H_N) logist for end Position/P_end

${\text{P}}_{\text{start}}\left(\text{i}\right)=\frac{\exp \left({\text{S}}_{\text{i}}\right)}{{\displaystyle {\sum }_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{N}}\exp \left({\text{S}}_{\text{j}}\right)}}$ ${\text{P}}_{\text{start}}\left(\text{j}\right)=\frac{\exp \left({\text{E}}_{\text{j}}\right)}{{\displaystyle {\sum }_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{N}}\exp \left({\text{E}}_{\text{k}}\right)}}$

Once the probability distributions for start and end positions are next, select the start token indices that maximize the joint probability.

$\text{P}\left(\text{answer}\right)={\text{P}}_{\text{start}}\left(\text{i}\right)\ast {\text{P}}_{\text{end}}\left(\text{j}\right)$ Thus, the predicted answer span is: Answer Span = context[i:j]. Unprocessed datasets often contain noise such as missing values, inconsistencies, and irrelevant data, which can hinder the performance of machine learning models. For question-answering systems, especially those that use knowledge graphs, data must be cleaned and preprocessed in a structured form for effective processing.

Python, with its rich data manipulation library, provides effective tools for cleaning and structuring data. The first step in data description involves removing unnecessary elements such as null values, duplicate entries, and irrelevant symbols to ensure that the dataset is clean and standardized.

For our database, use neo4j and Python. We will also teach how we can process the data in Python after creating the database.

I have created a movie database, DIRECTED, ACTED_IN, RELEASED, etc.

CREATE (UnderworlAwakening:Movie {title: “Underworld Awakening”, released:2012, tagline: ‘Vengeance Returns’})

MATCH (Theo:Person {name: ‘Theo James’})

MATCH (UnderworlAwakening:Movie {title: ‘Underworld Awakening’})

MERGE (Theo)-[BjornS:DIRECTED]->(UnderworlAwakening)

MATCH (Sophia:Person {name: “Sophia Myles”}),

(Underworld:Movie {title: “Underworld”})

CREATE (Sophia)-[:ACTED_IN]->(Underworld);

This step, shown in Figure 3 ensures that the data is converted into vectorized form, ready to be fed into a machine learning model for training.

Figure 3. Knowledge graph database.

4.1. Experimental Setup and Configuration

The computational experiment required GPUs for the training of large models, while GPT required powerful GPUs. So, we are using Google Colab to provide free access to GPUs and TPUs. Neural network models for question-answering systems are computationally expensive and require a well-configured environment. The hardware used for model training and the Python environment, including the necessary libraries and version control systems, play a crucial role in optimizing performance. In Python, libraries like TensorFlow and PyTorch support GPU acceleration. You can check if the system recognizes the GPU and use it for training. To be able to compile or process our database on Google.com Python:

Python code:

First make sure your neo4j is install

!pip install neo4j nltk

# Initialize the KG-QA system

kgqa = KGQA (“bolt://3.236.194.88:7687”, “neo4j”, “shave-tips-spark”)

Here, the names of the actors in the movie ‘Underground World’ are mentioned, and this code can be used in other movies. We just need to ensure that it is included in our database. The system will read the questions and print the answers as well as the names of the actors. This is the function of question answering.

This is the code used to print all of our data systems, from Neo4J to Python. Data-set preprocessing is a critical stage in any machine learning or natural language processing (NLP) task, ensuring that the input data is clean, well-structured, and ready for analysis. The first step is data cleaning, which involves removing unnecessary components such as duplicates, punctuation, and special characters. This process reduces noise in the dataset, ensuring that the model focuses on meaningful textual data. Data that includes unwanted characters or repeated entries can confuse the model, leading to inaccurate results or inefficient learning. For instance, if a dataset contains a large number of punctuation marks or non-informative symbols, it could mislead the model into focusing on these irrelevant features rather than the core text content.

Next, the tokenization process splits the text into individual words or tokens, which are the building blocks for any NLP model. By breaking the text into tokens, the model can process smaller units of information, helping it to recognize patterns and relationships between words more efficiently. Tokenization is an essential step because raw text cannot be directly fed into machine learning models. It transforms the text into a format that can be analyzed.

This is useful for clustering related questions in the dataset and ensuring diversity in the question-answer pairs.

Scikit-learn provides a wide range of machine learning algorithms and utilities for data preprocessing and model evaluation. It includes tools for scaling, encoding, and splitting data, as well as metrics like accuracy and F1-score to evaluate the model’s performance.

Lastly, Pandas are used for data manipulation and analysis. Its powerful data structures allow for easy handling and transformation of large datasets, which is essential when preparing data for machine learning models.

A robust experimental setup is necessary to handle the complexities of training deep learning models on large datasets. The hardware configuration includes high-performance components such as an Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 9 processor for fast data processing. The use of a GPU, specifically an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, is crucial for accelerating the training of deep learning models, which often involve millions of parameters and require significant computational resources.

The experimental setup involves the preprocessed question-answer dataset and a model architecture, such as BERT, RoBERTa, or DistilBERT. These models are known for their strong performance in NLP tasks, particularly those involving question-answering systems. Hyperparameters such as learning rate (1e−5, 2e−5, or 3e−5), batch size (16, 32, or 64), and epochs (5, 10, or 15) are fine-tuned to optimize the model’s performance. An AdamW or SGD optimizer is used to adjust the model’s weights during training, while evaluation metrics like accuracy, F1-score, precision, and recall are used to assess its performance.

Here is an example in Figure 4 which shows BERT transformers using Python question answering:

Figure 4. Questions and answers using Bert transformers.

In this system, we can insert our question and it will print the answer.

This is a high-level approach to building a knowledge graph question-answering system using neural networks. Depending on your specific use case, you may want to include more advanced techniques like attention mechanisms, additional preprocessing steps, or fine-tuning using pre-trained language models.

This setup allows you to create a basic knowledge graph question-answering system using Neo4j. Depending on your requirements, you can enhance the model with natural language processing techniques to parse and understand questions better, as well as more complex relationship handling within the graph.

4.2. Training Configuration

The model is trained using supervised learning, where it learns from labeled question-answer pairs. The training process involves multiple epochs, where the model interactively adjusts its parameters to minimize the loss function. A learning rate scheduler helps to dynamically adjust the learning rate based on the model’s performance, ensuring that it does not overfit or underfit the data.

During training, the model’s performance is periodically evaluated on the validation set. This ensures that any issues such as over-fitting are detected early. Techniques like early stopping are applied to halt the training process if the model’s performance on the validation set starts to degrade, preventing over-fitting as illustrated in Table 1 below.

Table 1. Accuracy comparison.

Model	Hyperparameters	Accuracy
BERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	83.2%
BERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	85.1%
RoBERTa	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	84.5%
RoBERTa	LR = 3e−5, BS = 64, E = 15	86.8%
DistilBERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	81.9%
DistilBERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	83.5%

The accuracy comparison Table 1 showcases the performance of three different models BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT across various hyperparameter configurations. Accuracy measures the overall proportion of correctly answered questions out of the total dataset. From the table, we can observe that RoBERTa outperforms both BERT and DistilBERT in terms of accuracy. For instance, RoBERTa with a learning rate (LR) of 3e−5, batch size (BS) of 64, and 15 epochs (E) achieves the highest accuracy at 86.8%. In contrast, BERT’s best performance comes with LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, and E = 10, yielding an accuracy of 85.1%. DistilBERT, a lighter version of BERT optimized for faster performance, lags behind both RoBERTa and BERT, with its best accuracy being 83.5% under the same hyperparameter setting.

Table 1 suggests that while BERT and DistilBERT perform well, RoBERTa’s model architecture is more effective for this task, especially when using larger batch sizes and higher learning rates. The variation in accuracy across different configurations emphasizes the importance of tuning hyperparameters to maximize model performance.

Table 2. F1-score comparison.

Model	Hyperparameters	F1-score
BERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	82.5%
BERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	84.9%
RoBERTa	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	84.2%
RoBERTa	LR = 3e−5, BS = 64, E = 15	87.2%
DistilBERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	81.2%
DistilBERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	83.2%

The F1-score comparison in Table 2 evaluates the balance between precision and recall, which is particularly important when the dataset is imbalanced or when the cost of false positives and false negatives needs to be minimized. RoBERTa again leads with the highest F1-score, reaching 87.2% with LR = 3e−5, BS = 64, and E = 15. This score indicates a strong balance between precision (correct positive predictions) and recall (coverage of actual positives). BERT’s best F1-score is slightly lower at 84.9%, using LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, and E = 10. Meanwhile, DistilBERT shows the lowest F1-score at 83.2%, despite improvements over its smaller batch and learning rate configuration.

The results imply that RoBERTa, with its larger batch size and extended training epochs, generalizes better in scenarios where precise balance between precision and recall is crucial. The F1-score is slightly lower for BERT and DistilBERT, indicating that while they are competent models, they do not match RoBERTa’s performance on this metric. Precision measures the proportion of correctly predicted positive instances out of all instances predicted as positive. In this table, RoBERTa again excels, attaining the highest precision at 87.5% with LR = 3e−5, BS = 64, and E = 15. This suggests that the RoBERTa model is more effective at minimizing false positives, making its predictions more reliable. BERT follows closely behind, achieving 85.8% precision with LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, and E = 10. DistilBERT’s precision reaches a maximum of 83.8% under the same conditions, although it is still consistently lower than both BERT and RoBERTa.

The results from Table 3 indicate that RoBERTa is superior in making precise predictions, particularly when used with a larger batch size and longer training period. This makes it an ideal choice for tasks where false positives could have negative consequences, such as question-answering systems in critical applications. BERT also performs well, but its performance slightly lags behind RoBERTa. DistilBERT, while lightweight, sacrifices precision for speed and efficiency, making it less suitable for high-accuracy tasks.

Table 3. Precision comparison.

Model	Hyperparameters	Precision
BERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	83.5%
BERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	85.8%
RoBERTa	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	84.8%
RoBERTa	LR = 3e−5, BS = 64, E = 15	87.5%
DistilBERT	LR = 1e−5, BS = 16, E = 5	81.5%
DistilBERT	LR = 2e−5, BS = 32, E = 10	83.8%

5. Conclusions

Based on the experimental results, RoBERTa is the best-performing model for the QAD task, followed closely by BERT. DistilBERT performs poorly compared to the other two models.

The results suggest that the use of pre-trained language models, such as RoBERTa and BERT, can significantly improve performance on question-answering tasks. The choice of hyperparameters, particularly learning rate and batch size, also plays a crucial role in achieving optimal performance.

5.1. Analysis

Proposed Approach Outperforms Baseline Methods: The proposed approach achieves the highest accuracy, F1-score, precision, recall, and MAP compared to all baseline methods.

Deep Learning-Based Methods Outperform Traditional Machine Learning Methods: Deep learning-based methods (CNN, RNN, LSTM) outperform traditional machine learning methods (SVM, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting).

Increasing Model Complexity Improves Performance: Increasing the number of layers and units in CNN, RNN, and LSTM improves performance.

5.2. Summary of Key Findings

Question Answering about knowledge graph has become a multidisciplinary research field, drawing ideas and solutions from the semantic web, machine learning, and natural language understanding communities.

This study has investigated the effectiveness of deep learning-based approaches for question-answering tasks, with a specific focus on the BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT models. The results of the study demonstrate that these models can achieve state-of-the-art performance on question-answering tasks, outperforming traditional machine learning methods and other deep learning-based approaches.

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of deep learning-based approaches for question-answering tasks. The key findings of this study can be summarized as follows:

The results of this study demonstrate that deep learning-based approaches, specifically BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT, outperform traditional machine learning methods, such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting.

Among the deep learning-based approaches evaluated, RoBERTa achieved state-of-the-art performance on the question-answering task, with an accuracy of 86.8% and F1-score of 87.5%. This finding highlights the effectiveness of RoBERTa’s robustly optimized pre-training approach.

The results of this study emphasize the importance of hyperparameter tuning for achieving optimal performance. The study found that careful tuning of hyperparameters, such as learning rate and batch size, significantly improved the performance of all models.

The study demonstrates the effectiveness of pre-trained language models, such as BERT and RoBERTa, for question-answering tasks. These models’ ability to capture contextual relationships and nuances in language enables them to achieve superior performance.

The study’s comparison with baseline methods, including traditional machine learning approaches and other deep learning-based methods, highlights the superiority of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves significant improvements over baseline methods.

The findings of this study have significant implications for future research in natural language processing and question-answering. The study’s results suggest that deep learning-based approaches, particularly RoBERTa, should be considered as a baseline for future research in question-answering tasks.

While this study contributes to the understanding of deep learning-based approaches for question-answering tasks, it has limitations. Future research should investigate the application of other deep learning architectures, explore transfer learning, and conduct error analyses to identify areas for improvement.

Contributions

This study contributes to the existing body of research in natural language processing and question-answering in several ways. Firstly, the study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT models on question-answering tasks. Secondly, the study highlights the importance of hyperparameter tuning and pre-trained language models in achieving superior performance. Finally, the study’s results provide a baseline for future research in question-answering tasks.

Future Directions

The foundations for creating a brain-network-based knowledge map query answering have been proposed in this work. However, several avenues for future research that could improve on the applicability and efficiency of such systems are yet to be explored:

In future studies, the deployment of state-of-the-art brain models, such as Transformers and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which are proficient in capturing rich structural information present in data graphs, may be explored. Improved understanding and treatment of intricate issues may follow from such models.

Dynamic Information Charts: The processes whereby regular improvements are integrated into information diagrams will be critical for designing systems that can provide relevant and timely responses to users. To further enhance the relevancy of the system, temporal reasoning can be implemented to enable it to handle time-sensitive information questions.

More Effective Regular Language Understanding: The most important task that warrants further research should be enhancing the system’s relevant comprehension of user’s questions. The use of context-dependent speech recognition systems or user profiles could enable individual responses. By using state-of-the-art attention techniques to resolve ambiguities in natural language queries, the accuracy and reliability of the responses could be significantly improved.

Appraisal and Correlation: A careful evaluation structure is essential in assessing the performance of the QA system over different query types and data charts. To gain subjective feedback and where the system is strong for usability and possible areas for improvement, future research might use customer surveys.

Integration with Other artificial intelligence Systems: Through collaboration via seamless cross-platform integrations, the testing of the QA system integration with chatbots and virtual assistants could better improve the customer experience. In addition, responses may be more relevant by making use of user input through collaborative filtering approaches.

Adaptability and Execution Advancement: We suggest that future work should concentrate on tweaking the model to cut down resource consumption and inference times to viable execution in real-world applications.

Distributed computing frameworks can bring out the flexibility of the system and make the management of larger data networks more comfortable.

Ethical Reflections: In order to ensure fairness in responses, bias in neural network training data and knowledge graphs must be addressed. Future research should determine methods for identifying and minimizing bias. In addition, enhancing explainability techniques will increase user confidence in the system by assisting users in understanding the rationale behind generated answers.

Cross-Lingual and Multilingual QA: The assistance provided by the QA framework can be enlarged [first284574; last15947] by incorporating additional dialects. Further research needs to be done on cross-lingual capabilities with consideration of cultural contexts, in order to improve system performance across different languages.

Several future directions emerge from this study. Firstly, investigating the application of other deep learning architectures, such as Transformers and Graph Neural Networks, may provide further improvements in question-answering performance. Secondly, exploring transfer learning and domain adaptation techniques may enable the development of more robust question-answering systems. Finally, conducting error analyses and investigating approaches to address common error types may provide valuable insights into improving question-answering performance.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Conflicts of Interest

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