A Systematic Classification of Knowledge, Reasoning, and Context within the ARC Dataset
Abstract
The recent work of Clark et al. introduces the AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) and the associated ARC dataset that partitions open domain, complex science questions into an Easy Set and a Challenge Set. That paper includes an analysis of 100 questions with respect to the types of knowledge and reasoning required to answer them; however, it does not include clear definitions of these types, nor does it offer information about the quality of the labels. We propose a comprehensive set of definitions of knowledge and reasoning types necessary for answering the questions in the ARC dataset. Using ten annotators and a sophisticated annotation interface, we analyze the distribution of labels across the Challenge Set and statistics related to them. Additionally, we demonstrate that although naive information retrieval methods return sentences that are irrelevant to answering the query, sufficient supporting text is often present in the (ARC) corpus. Evaluating with human-selected relevant sentences improves the performance of a neural machine comprehension model by 42 points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1806.00358,
title = {A Systematic Classification of Knowledge, Reasoning, and Context within the ARC Dataset},
author = {Michael Boratko and Harshit Padigela and Divyendra Mikkilineni and Pritish Yuvraj and Rajarshi Das and Andrew McCallum and Maria Chang and Achille Fokoue-Nkoutche and Pavan Kapanipathi and Nicholas Mattei and Ryan Musa and Kartik Talamadupula and Michael Witbrock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00358},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Presented at the Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA 2018) Workshop at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018). 11 pages, 5 tables, 4 figures. Added missing citations in the latest draft