Question Answering
Question answering (QA) research aims to develop systems that accurately and efficiently respond to diverse questions posed in natural language. Current efforts focus on improving the robustness and efficiency of QA models, particularly in handling long contexts, ambiguous queries, and knowledge conflicts, often leveraging large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures. These advancements are significant for various applications, including information retrieval, conversational AI, and educational tools, driving improvements in both the accuracy and accessibility of information.
Papers
FanOutQA: A Multi-Hop, Multi-Document Question Answering Benchmark for Large Language Models
Andrew Zhu, Alyssa Hwang, Liam Dugan, Chris Callison-Burch
Self-DC: When to retrieve and When to generate? Self Divide-and-Conquer for Compositional Unknown Questions
Hongru Wang, Boyang Xue, Baohang Zhou, Tianhua Zhang, Cunxiang Wang, Guanhua Chen, Huimin Wang, Kam-fai Wong
RefuteBench: Evaluating Refuting Instruction-Following for Large Language Models
Jianhao Yan, Yun Luo, Yue Zhang
CliqueParcel: An Approach For Batching LLM Prompts That Jointly Optimizes Efficiency And Faithfulness
Jiayi Liu, Tinghan Yang, Jennifer Neville
Evaluating LLMs' Mathematical Reasoning in Financial Document Question Answering
Pragya Srivastava, Manuj Malik, Vivek Gupta, Tanuja Ganu, Dan Roth
PEDANTS: Cheap but Effective and Interpretable Answer Equivalence
Zongxia Li, Ishani Mondal, Yijun Liang, Huy Nghiem, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber
EntGPT: Linking Generative Large Language Models with Knowledge Bases
Yifan Ding, Amrit Poudel, Qingkai Zeng, Tim Weninger, Balaji Veeramani, Sanmitra Bhattacharya
Verif.ai: Towards an Open-Source Scientific Generative Question-Answering System with Referenced and Verifiable Answers
Miloš Košprdić, Adela Ljajić, Bojana Bašaragin, Darija Medvecki, Nikola Milošević
Graph Guided Question Answer Generation for Procedural Question-Answering
Hai X. Pham, Isma Hadji, Xinnuo Xu, Ziedune Degutyte, Jay Rainey, Evangelos Kazakos, Afsaneh Fazly, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Brais Martinez
SpeechDPR: End-to-End Spoken Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Spoken Question Answering
Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Guan-Ting Lin, Yung-Sung Chuang, Wei-Lun Wu, Shang-Wen Li, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee
Question answering systems for health professionals at the point of care -- a systematic review
Gregory Kell, Angus Roberts, Serge Umansky, Linglong Qian, Davide Ferrari, Frank Soboczenski, Byron Wallace, Nikhil Patel, Iain J Marshall