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Question answering systems are typically evaluated on factual correctness, yet many real-world applications-such as education and career guidance-require mentorship: responses that provide reflection and guidance. Existing QA benchmarks…

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The rise of large language models (LLMs) has enabled us to seek answers to inherently debatable questions on LLM chatbots, necessitating a reliable way to evaluate their ability. However, traditional QA benchmarks assume fixed answers are…

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Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in code generation, achieving impressive capabilities in synthesizing code snippets from natural language instructions. However, a critical challenge remains in ensuring LLMs…

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Spoken question answering (SQA) systems are critical for digital assistants and other real-world use cases, but evaluating their performance is a challenge due to the importance of human-spoken questions. This study presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yijing Wu , SaiKrishna Rallabandi , Ravisutha Srinivasamurthy , Parag Pravin Dakle , Alolika Gon , Preethi Raghavan

Assistants on assembly tasks show great potential to benefit humans ranging from helping with everyday tasks to interacting in industrial settings. However, evaluation resources in assembly activities are underexplored. To foster system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Masaki Asada , Susan Holm , Yuran Wang , Vincent Zhou , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

This study focuses on the evaluation of the Open Question Answering (Open-QA) task, which can directly estimate the factuality of large language models (LLMs). Current automatic evaluation methods have shown limitations, indicating that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Cunxiang Wang , Sirui Cheng , Qipeng Guo , Yuanhao Yue , Bowen Ding , Zhikun Xu , Yidong Wang , Xiangkun Hu , Zheng Zhang , Yue Zhang

Table-based question answering (TableQA) is an important task in natural language processing, which requires comprehending tables and employing various reasoning ways to answer the questions. This paper introduces TableQAKit, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Fangyu Lei , Tongxu Luo , Pengqi Yang , Weihao Liu , Hanwen Liu , Jiahe Lei , Yiming Huang , Yifan Wei , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

We introduce SciQAG, a novel framework for automatically generating high-quality science question-answer pairs from a large corpus of scientific literature based on large language models (LLMs). SciQAG consists of a QA generator and a QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yuwei Wan , Yixuan Liu , Aswathy Ajith , Clara Grazian , Bram Hoex , Wenjie Zhang , Chunyu Kit , Tong Xie , Ian Foster

The evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) on mathematical reasoning has largely focused on elementary problems, competition-style questions, or formal theorem proving, leaving graduate-level and computational mathematics relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Bianca Raimondi , Francesco Pivi , Davide Evangelista , Maurizio Gabbrielli

We present QuAC, a dataset for Question Answering in Context that contains 14K information-seeking QA dialogs (100K questions in total). The dialogs involve two crowd workers: (1) a student who poses a sequence of freeform questions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Eunsol Choi , He He , Mohit Iyyer , Mark Yatskar , Wen-tau Yih , Yejin Choi , Percy Liang , Luke Zettlemoyer

We introduce OpenLifelogQA, a large-scale open-ended lifelog QA dataset constructed from 18 months of multimodal lifelog data. Lifelogging is the passive collection and analysis of personal daily activities using wearable devices, producing…

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Scientific literature is typically dense, requiring significant background knowledge and deep comprehension for effective engagement. We introduce SciDQA, a new dataset for reading comprehension that challenges LLMs for a deep understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Shruti Singh , Nandan Sarkar , Arman Cohan

Conversational question-answering (CQA) systems aim to create interactive search systems that effectively retrieve information by interacting with users. To replicate human-to-human conversations, existing work uses human annotators to play…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Yifei Yuan , Evangelos Kanoulas , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Natural Question Answering (QA) datasets play a crucial role in evaluating the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), ensuring their effectiveness in real-world applications. Despite the numerous QA datasets that have been developed…

Long-form question answering (LFQA) demands nuanced evaluation of multi-sentence explanatory responses, yet existing metrics often fail to reflect human judgment. We present LFQA-HP-1M, a large-scale dataset comprising 1.3M human pairwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rafid Ishrak Jahan , Fahmid Shahriar Iqbal , Sagnik Ray Choudhury

Large language models are playing an increasingly significant role in molecular research, yet existing models often generate erroneous information, posing challenges to accurate molecular comprehension. Traditional evaluation metrics for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Xingyu Lu , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Shengyuan Bai , Leqing Chen , Yuan Yao , Hai-Tao Zheng , Yu Li

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitanya Malaviya , Subin Lee , Sihao Chen , Elizabeth Sieber , Mark Yatskar , Dan Roth

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

To enable building and testing models on long-document comprehension, we introduce QuALITY, a multiple-choice QA dataset with context passages in English that have an average length of about 5,000 tokens, much longer than typical current…

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across various tasks, prompting researchers to develop diverse evaluation benchmarks. However, most benchmarks typically measure the ability of LLMs to respond to individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutao Hou , Yajing Luo , Zhiwen Ruan , Hongru Wang , Weifeng Ge , Yun Chen , Guanhua Chen