Factual State Discovery Benchmark: Evaluating Fact Elicitation in Polish Tax Law
Mateusz Bystroński, Kamil Tagowski, Denis Janiak, Julia Farganus, Lukasz Augustyniak, Monika Kajdanowicz, Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz
Abstract
Before a tax authority can issue a ruling, it must receive a complete description of the taxpayer’s situation—yet no benchmark measures whether language models can systematically elicit all relevant facts through dialogue.We introduce FSDBench (Factual State Discovery Benchmark), in which a discovery agent questions a simulated taxpayer grounded in a real tax document.The dataset comprises 500 narratives from official Polish tax interpretations, decomposed into 32 874 atomic facts with validated supported precision (97.6%), atomicity (93.8%), and sentence coverage (96.0%).Experiments with four models show that even the best system recovers only 77% of facts on easy samples and under 49% on hard samples after 50 turns.These findings establish conversational fact elicitation as a challenging open problem requiring retrieval-augmented and adaptive questioning strategies.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.acl-srw.114
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, United States
- Editors:
- Santosh T.Y.S.S., Juan Diego Rodriguez, Ona de Gibert
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1262–1279
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-form-platform/2026.acl-srw.114/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mateusz Bystroński, Kamil Tagowski, Denis Janiak, Julia Farganus, Lukasz Augustyniak, Monika Kajdanowicz, and Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz. 2026. Factual State Discovery Benchmark: Evaluating Fact Elicitation in Polish Tax Law. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 1262–1279, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Factual State Discovery Benchmark: Evaluating Fact Elicitation in Polish Tax Law (Bystroński et al., ACL 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-form-platform/2026.acl-srw.114.pdf