A Collection of Question Answering Datasets for Norwegian
Vladislav Mikhailov, Petter Mæhlum, Victoria Ovedie Chruickshank Langø, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid
Abstract
This paper introduces a new suite of question answering datasets for Norwegian; NorOpenBookQA, NorCommonSenseQA, NorTruthfulQA, and NRK-Quiz-QA. The data covers a wide range of skills and knowledge domains, including world knowledge, commonsense reasoning, truthfulness, and knowledge about Norway. Covering both of the written standards of Norwegian – Bokmål and Nynorsk – our datasets comprise over 10k question-answer pairs, created by native speakers. We detail our dataset creation approach and present the results of evaluating 11 language models (LMs) in zero- and few-shot regimes. Most LMs perform better in Bokmål than Nynorsk, struggle most with commonsense reasoning, and are often untruthful in generating answers to questions. All our datasets and annotation materials are publicly available.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.nodalida-1.43
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
- Month:
- march
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Editors:
- Richard Johansson, Sara Stymne
- Venue:
- NoDaLiDa
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- Publisher:
- University of Tartu Library
- Note:
- Pages:
- 397–407
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.nodalida-1.43/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Vladislav Mikhailov, Petter Mæhlum, Victoria Ovedie Chruickshank Langø, Erik Velldal, and Lilja Øvrelid. 2025. A Collection of Question Answering Datasets for Norwegian. In Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), pages 397–407, Tallinn, Estonia. University of Tartu Library.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Collection of Question Answering Datasets for Norwegian (Mikhailov et al., NoDaLiDa 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.nodalida-1.43.pdf