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ExpertQA: Dataset of Expert-Curated Questions and Attributed Answers (arxiv.org)
3 points by Jimmc414 on Sep 15, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Domain experts in 32 fields wrote their own questions, judged AI answers to them, and rewrote the answers with a checked source for every claim. The result is 2,177 questions with verified, cited answers, unlike earlier tests that skipped expert, field-specific review.

Abstract · ExpertQA: Expert-Curated Questions and Attributed Answers

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is especially the case for high-stakes fields, such as medicine and law, where the risk of propagating false information is high and can lead to undesirable societal consequences. Previous work studying attribution and factuality has not focused on analyzing these characteristics of language model outputs in domain-specific scenarios. In this work, we conduct human evaluation of responses from a few representative systems along various axes of attribution and factuality, by bringing domain experts in the loop. Specifically, we collect expert-curated questions from 484 participants across 32 fields of study, and then ask the same experts to evaluate generated responses to their own questions. In addition, we ask experts to improve upon responses from language models. The output of our analysis is ExpertQA, a high-quality long-form QA dataset with 2177 questions spanning 32 fields, along with verified answers and attributions for claims in the answers.

Chaitanya Malaviya, Subin Lee, Sihao Chen, Elizabeth Sieber, Mark Yatskar, Dan Roth
arXiv:2309.07852 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Sep 14, 2023 · updated Apr 2, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted to NAACL 2024. Dataset & code is available at https://github.com/chaitanyamalaviya/expertqa

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