QuALITY: Question Answering with Long Input Texts, Yes!

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Alicia Parrish, Nitish Joshi, Nikita Nangia, Jason Phang, Angelica Chen, Vishakh Padmakumar, Johnny Ma, Jana Thompson, He He, Samuel Bowman


Abstract
To enable building and testing models on long-document comprehension, we introduce QuALITY, a multiple-choice QA dataset with context passages in English that have an average length of about 5,000 tokens, much longer than typical current models can process. Unlike in prior work with passages, our questions are written and validated by contributors who have read the entire passage, rather than relying on summaries or excerpts. In addition, only half of the questions are answerable by annotators working under tight time constraints, indicating that skimming and simple search are not enough to consistently perform well. Our baseline models perform poorly on this task (55.4%) and significantly lag behind human performance (93.5%).
Anthology ID:
2022.naacl-main.391
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5336–5358
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.391
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.391
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Cite (ACL):
Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Alicia Parrish, Nitish Joshi, Nikita Nangia, Jason Phang, Angelica Chen, Vishakh Padmakumar, Johnny Ma, Jana Thompson, He He, and Samuel Bowman. 2022. QuALITY: Question Answering with Long Input Texts, Yes!. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5336–5358, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
QuALITY: Question Answering with Long Input Texts, Yes! (Pang et al., NAACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.391.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.391.mp4
Code
 nyu-mll/quality +  additional community code
Data
QuALITYNarrativeQARACE