Title
TempQuestions: A Benchmark for Temporal Question Answering.
Abstract
Answering complex questions is one of the challenges that question-answering (QA) systems face today. While complexity has several facets, question dimensions like temporal and spatial intents necessitate specialized treatment. Methods geared towards such questions need benchmarks that reflect the desired aspects and challenges. Here, we take a key step in this direction, and release a new benchmark, TempQuestions, containing 1,271 questions, that are all temporal in nature, paired with their answers. As a key contribution that enabled the creation of this resource, we provide a crisp definition for temporal questions. Most questions require decomposing them into sub-questions, and the questions are of a kind that they would be best evaluated on a combination of structured data and unstructured text sources. Experiments with two QA systems demonstrate the need for further research on complex questions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3184558.3191536
WWW '18: The Web Conference 2018 Lyon France April, 2018
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5640-4
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Jia130.76
Abdalghani Abujabal2534.09
Rishiraj Saha Roy311215.17
Jannik Strötgen449238.20
Gerhard Weikum5127102146.01