VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Tianqiang Sheng
dblp:422/9281
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Question answering and dialogue systems · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › domain-specific question answering
clinical question answering |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DUAL-Know: A Description-Augmented and Uncertainty-Aware GraphRAG Framework for Anesthesiology Question Answering · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems
multi-hop reasoning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DUAL-Know: A Description-Augmented and Uncertainty-Aware GraphRAG Framework for Anesthesiology Question Answering · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2026 |
Information retrieval › retrieval-augmented generation
graph-based retrieval-augmented generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DUAL-Know: A Description-Augmented and Uncertainty-Aware GraphRAG Framework for Anesthesiology Question Answering · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2026 |
Information retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DUAL-Know: A Description-Augmented and Uncertainty-Aware GraphRAG Framework for Anesthesiology Question Answering · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
uncertainty estimation · 2.0large language model · 2.0heterogeneous multi-head attention · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DUAL-Know: A Description-Augmented and Uncertainty-Aware GraphRAG Framework for Anesthesiology Question AnsweringabstractGraph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is a prominent technique for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it faces critical limitations in high-stakes anesthesiology question answering. At the retrieval stage, pervasive synonymy and knowledge fragmentation cause clinical queries to resolve to incorrect synonym clusters, while the highly specialized and domain-specific nature of clinical language widens the semantic gap, making an effective balance between recall and precision difficult to achieve. At the reasoning stage, the high structural heterogeneity of anesthesiology knowledge graphs, combined with the strong context-dependence of clinical semantics, renders existing multi-hop reasoning susceptible to clinical logic drift along weak associations, thereby introducing unreliable reasoning paths. Finally, at the fusion stage, conflicts between retrieved evidence and the model's parametric knowledge can easily lead to highly confident yet clinically unsafe hallucinations. To address these challenges, we propose the Description-augmented, Uncertainty-aware, and Adaptive Layered Knowledge Framework (DUAL-Know). For retrieval, query augmentation and description-augmented semantic recall bridge terminology gaps and comprehensively retrieve relevant knowledge. For reasoning, a Dynamically Gated Heterogeneous Multi-Head Attention (DGHMA) mechanism accommodates graph heterogeneity and dynamically injects query intent into each reasoning layer, followed by an uncertainty-aware path ranking module that filters noisy chains. For fusion, a multi-metric scoring strategy jointly evaluates model confidence, retrieval consistency, and semantic coherence to safely arbitrate knowledge conflicts. Experiments demonstrate that DUAL-Know consistently outperforms strong baselines, generating more accurate, reliable, and verifiable answers for complex clinical question-answering tasks. Hongzhi Qi, Jianqiang Li 0002, Yanhu Ge, Yuqi Cai, Shuyao Che, Tianqiang Sheng, Qing Zhao 0005, Chaojin Chen |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 7 |