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We study a new problem setting of question answering (QA), referred to as DocTabQA. Within this setting, given a long document, the goal is to respond to questions by organizing the answers into structured tables derived directly from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haochen Wang , Kai Hu , Haoyu Dong , Liangcai Gao

Conversational question answering (CQA) facilitates an incremental and interactive understanding of a given context, but building a CQA system is difficult for many domains due to the problem of data scarcity. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Table Question Answering (TQA) is an important but under-explored task. Most of the existing QA datasets are in unstructured text format and only few of them use tables as the context. To the best of our knowledge, none of TQA datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Man Luo , Sharad Saxena , Swaroop Mishra , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Aishwarya Agrawal , Jiasen Lu , Stanislaw Antol , Margaret Mitchell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

We describe a Question Answering (QA) dataset that contains complex questions with conditional answers, i.e. the answers are only applicable when certain conditions apply. We call this dataset ConditionalQA. In addition to conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Haitian Sun , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Question-answering (QA) is a natural approach for humans to understand a piece of music audio. However, for machines, accessing a large-scale dataset covering diverse aspects of music is crucial, yet challenging, due to the scarcity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhihao Ouyang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Daiyu Zhang , Bin Chen , Shangjie Li , Quan Lin

We introduce FigureQA, a visual reasoning corpus of over one million question-answer pairs grounded in over 100,000 images. The images are synthetic, scientific-style figures from five classes: line plots, dot-line plots, vertical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Adam Atkinson , Akos Kadar , Adam Trischler , Yoshua Bengio

Tabular data embedded in PDF files, web pages, and other types of documents is prevalent in various domains. These tables, which we call human-centric tables (HCTs for short), are dense in information but often exhibit complex structural…

\Ac{LFQA} aims to generate lengthy answers to complex questions. This scenario presents great flexibility as well as significant challenges for evaluation. Most evaluations rely on deterministic metrics that depend on string or n-gram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ning Xian , Yixing Fan , Ruqing Zhang , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo

The absence of explicitly tailored, accessible annotated datasets for educational purposes presents a notable obstacle for NLP tasks in languages with limited resources.This study initially explores the feasibility of using machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Hailay Teklehaymanot , Dren Fazlija , Niloy Ganguly , Gourab K. Patro , Wolfgang Nejdl

Charts are very popular to analyze data and convey important insights. People often analyze visualizations to answer open-ended questions that require explanatory answers. Answering such questions are often difficult and time-consuming as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shankar Kantharaj , Xuan Long Do , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Jia Qing Tan , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

A key limitation in current datasets for multi-hop reasoning is that the required steps for answering the question are mentioned in it explicitly. In this work, we introduce StrategyQA, a question answering (QA) benchmark where the required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Mor Geva , Daniel Khashabi , Elad Segal , Tushar Khot , Dan Roth , Jonathan Berant

Question Answering (QA) is a task in which a machine understands a given document and a question to find an answer. Despite impressive progress in the NLP area, QA is still a challenging problem, especially for non-English languages due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-04 ByungHoon So , Kyuhong Byun , Kyungwon Kang , Seongjin Cho

Existing benchmarks for evaluating foundation models mainly focus on single-document, text-only tasks. However, they often fail to fully capture the complexity of research workflows, which typically involve interpreting non-textual data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Chuhan Li , Ziyao Shangguan , Yilun Zhao , Deyuan Li , Yixin Liu , Arman Cohan

Visual question answering is an important task in both natural language and vision understanding. However, in most of the public visual question answering datasets such as VQA, CLEVR, the questions are human generated that specific to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Bingning Wang , Feiyang Lv , Ting Yao , Yiming Yuan , Jin Ma , Yu Luo , Haijin Liang

We present NewsQA, a challenging machine comprehension dataset of over 100,000 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers supply questions and answers based on a set of over 10,000 news articles from CNN, with answers consisting of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Adam Trischler , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Justin Harris , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

Due to the concise and structured nature of tables, the knowledge contained therein may be incomplete or missing, posing a significant challenge for table question answering (TableQA) and data analysis systems. Most existing datasets either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mengkang Hu , Haoyu Dong , Ping Luo , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Extractive question answering (QA) systems can enable physicians and researchers to query medical records, a foundational capability for designing clinical studies and understanding patient medical history. However, building these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Joel Stremmel , Ardavan Saeedi , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Sanjit Batra , Jeffrey Hertzberg , Jaime Murillo , Eran Halperin

Question answering (QA) is a fundamental means to facilitate assessment and training of narrative comprehension skills for both machines and young children, yet there is scarcity of high-quality QA datasets carefully designed to serve this…

We present a new dataset for chart question answering (CQA) constructed from visualization notebooks. The dataset features real-world, multi-view charts paired with natural language questions grounded in analytical narratives. Unlike prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha