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Can LLMs Evaluate Complex Attribution in QA? Automatic Benchmarking using Knowledge Graphs

Computation and Language 2025-07-02 v2

Abstract

Attributed Question Answering (AQA) has attracted wide attention, but there are still several limitations in evaluating the attributions, including lacking fine-grained attribution categories, relying on manual annotations, and failing to compare attributions with only subtle differences. To bridge these gaps, we introduce Complex Attributed Question Answering (CAQA), a large-scale benchmark containing comprehensive attribution categories, automatically generated using Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and complex attribution scenarios. We have conducted extensive experiments to verify the effectiveness of CAQA, including the benchmarking of 25 automatic evaluators, their comparison with human evaluators, the testing of LLM evaluators fine-tuned by CAQA and so on. These experiments also lead to a series of important findings that can benefit the future research of AQA. All the codes and data are publicly accessible at https://github.com/HuuuNan/CAQA-Benchmark.

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@article{arxiv.2401.14640,
  title  = {Can LLMs Evaluate Complex Attribution in QA? Automatic Benchmarking using Knowledge Graphs},
  author = {Nan Hu and Jiaoyan Chen and Yike Wu and Guilin Qi and Hongru Wang and Sheng Bi and Yongrui Chen and Tongtong Wu and Jeff Z. Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14640},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted to ACL 2025 (Main Conference)

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