DBQR-QA: A Question Answering Dataset on a Hybrid of Database Querying and Reasoning

Rungsiman Nararatwong, Chung-Chi Chen, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn, Hiroya Takamura, Ryutaro Ichise


Abstract
This paper introduces the Database Querying and Reasoning Dataset for Question Answering (DBQR-QA), aimed at addressing the gap in current question-answering (QA) research by emphasizing the essential processes of database querying and reasoning to answer questions. Specifically designed to accommodate sequential questions and multi-hop queries, DBQR-QA more accurately mirrors the dynamics of real-world information retrieval and analysis, with a particular focus on the financial reports of US companies. The dataset’s construction, the challenges encountered during its development, the performance of large language models on this dataset, and a human evaluation are thoroughly discussed to illustrate the dataset’s complexity and highlight future research directions in querying and reasoning tasks.
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2024.findings-acl.900
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15169–15182
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.900
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.900
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Rungsiman Nararatwong, Chung-Chi Chen, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn, Hiroya Takamura, and Ryutaro Ichise. 2024. DBQR-QA: A Question Answering Dataset on a Hybrid of Database Querying and Reasoning. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 15169–15182, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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