@inproceedings{rinaldi-etal-2024-mult,
    title = "Mult-{IT} Multiple Choice Questions on Multiple Topics in {I}talian: A {CALAMITA} Challenge",
    author = "Rinaldi, Matteo  and
      Gili, Jacopo  and
      Francis, Maria  and
      Goffetti, Mattia  and
      Patti, Viviana  and
      Nissim, Malvina",
    editor = "Dell'Orletta, Felice  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Montemagni, Simonetta  and
      Sprugnoli, Rachele",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Pisa, Italy",
    publisher = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.clicit-1.131/",
    pages = "1184--1201",
    ISBN = "979-12-210-7060-6",
    abstract = "Multi-choice question answering (MCQA) is a powerful tool for evaluating the factual knowledge and reasoning capacities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, there is a lack of large-scale MCQA datasets originally written in Italian. Existing Italian MCQA benchmarks are often automatically translated from English, an approach with two key drawbacks: Firstly, automatic translations may sound unnatural, contain errors, or use linguistics constructions that do not align with the target language. Secondly, they may introduce topical and ideological biases reflecting Anglo-centric perspectives. To addressthis gap, we present Mult-IT, an MCQA dataset comprising over 110,000 manually written questions across a wide range of topics. All questions are sourced directly from preparation quizzes for Italian university entrance exams, or for exams for public sector employment in Italy. We are hopeful that this contribution enables a more comprehensive evaluation of LLMs' proficiency, not only in the Italian language, but also in their grasp of Italian cultural and contextual knowledge."
}