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Recent work in semantic parsing for question answering has focused on long and complicated questions, many of which would seem unnatural if asked in a normal conversation between two humans. In an effort to explore a conversational QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Mohit Iyyer , Wen-tau Yih , Ming-Wei Chang

We present MeeQA, a dataset for natural-language question answering over meeting transcripts. It includes real questions asked during meetings by its participants. The dataset contains 48K question-answer pairs, extracted from 422 meeting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Reut Apel , Tom Braude , Amir Kantor , Eyal Kolman

Retrieval-based code question answering seeks to match user queries in natural language to relevant code snippets. Previous approaches typically rely on pretraining models using crafted bi-modal and uni-modal datasets to align text and code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zehan Li , Jianfei Zhang , Chuantao Yin , Yuanxin Ouyang , Wenge Rong

Question Answering (QA) datasets are crucial in assessing reading comprehension skills for both machines and humans. While numerous datasets have been developed in English for this purpose, a noticeable void exists in less-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Tomás Freitas Osório , Henrique Lopes Cardoso

We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Pranav Rajpurkar , Jian Zhang , Konstantin Lopyrev , Percy Liang

Humans seek information regarding a specific topic through performing a conversation containing a series of questions and answers. In the pursuit of conversational question answering research, we introduce the PCoQA, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Hamed Hematian Hemati , Atousa Toghyani , Atena Souri , Sayed Hesam Alavian , Hossein Sameti , Hamid Beigy

Commonsense reasoning is a critical AI capability, but it is difficult to construct challenging datasets that test common sense. Recent neural question answering systems, based on large pre-trained models of language, have already achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Chen , Mike D'Arcy , Alisa Liu , Jared Fernandez , Doug Downey

The full power of human language-based communication cannot be realized without negation. All human languages have some form of negation. Despite this, negation remains a challenging phenomenon for current natural language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Abhilasha Ravichander , Matt Gardner , Ana Marasović

In the last few years, open-domain question answering (ODQA) has advanced rapidly due to the development of deep learning techniques and the availability of large-scale QA datasets. However, the current datasets are essentially designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiexin Wang , Adam Jatowt , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

We present CovidQA, the beginnings of a question answering dataset specifically designed for COVID-19, built by hand from knowledge gathered from Kaggle's COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge. To our knowledge, this is the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Raphael Tang , Rodrigo Nogueira , Edwin Zhang , Nikhil Gupta , Phuong Cam , Kyunghyun Cho , Jimmy Lin

Recently proposed systems for open-domain question answering (OpenQA) require large amounts of training data to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, data annotation is known to be time-consuming and therefore expensive to acquire.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Piotr Rybak , Piotr Przybyła , Maciej Ogrodniczuk

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Soumya Jahagirdar , Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

We present FoQA, a Faroese extractive question-answering (QA) dataset with 2,000 samples, created using a semi-automated approach combining Large Language Models (LLMs) and human validation. The dataset was generated from Faroese Wikipedia…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Annika Simonsen , Dan Saattrup Nielsen , Hafsteinn Einarsson

Visual question answering on document images that contain textual, visual, and layout information, called document VQA, has received much attention recently. Although many datasets have been proposed for developing document VQA systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryota Tanaka , Kyosuke Nishida , Kosuke Nishida , Taku Hasegawa , Itsumi Saito , Kuniko Saito

In this paper, we describe and present the first dataset of source code plagiarism specifically aimed at contest plagiarism. The dataset contains 251 pairs of plagiarized solutions of competitive programming tasks in Java, as well as 660…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Evgeniy Slobodkin , Alexander Sadovnikov

In this paper we present NorQuAD: the first Norwegian question answering dataset for machine reading comprehension. The dataset consists of 4,752 manually created question-answer pairs. We here detail the data collection procedure and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Sardana Ivanova , Fredrik Aas Andreassen , Matias Jentoft , Sondre Wold , Lilja Øvrelid

Every day, thousands of customers post questions on Amazon product pages. After some time, if they are fortunate, a knowledgeable customer might answer their question. Observing that many questions can be answered based upon the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Mansi Gupta , Nitish Kulkarni , Raghuveer Chanda , Anirudha Rayasam , Zachary C Lipton

We propose AutoQA, a methodology and toolkit to generate semantic parsers that answer questions on databases, with no manual effort. Given a database schema and its data, AutoQA automatically generates a large set of high-quality questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Silei Xu , Sina J. Semnani , Giovanni Campagna , Monica S. Lam

Developers often have questions about semantic aspects of code they are working on, e.g., "Is there a class whose parent classes declare a conflicting attribute?". Answering them requires understanding code semantics such as attributes and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Surya Prakash Sahu , Madhurima Mandal , Shikhar Bharadwaj , Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , Shirish Shevade

Code generation from text requires understanding the user's intent from a natural language description and generating an executable code snippet that satisfies this intent. While recent pretrained language models demonstrate remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Haau-Sing Li , Mohsen Mesgar , André F. T. Martins , Iryna Gurevych