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---
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- table-question-answering
language:
- en
size_categories:
- n<1K
---
This repository contains the CRT-QA dataset, which includes question-answer pairs that require complex reasoning over tabular data. 🚀
## About the Dataset and Paper
- **Title:** CRT-QA: A Dataset of Complex Reasoning Question Answering over Tabular Data
- **Conference:** EMNLP 2023
- **Authors:** [Zhehao Zhang](https://zzh-sjtu.github.io/zhehaozhang.github.io/), Xitao Li, Yan Gao, Jian-Guang Lou 👩💼👨💼
- **Affiliation:** Dartmouth College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Microsoft Research Asia 🏢
### Data Format
The data is stored in a json file, structured with the following fields for each datapoint (keyed by a .csv file table):
```
Question name, Title, step1, step2, step3, step4, Answer, Directness, Composition Type
```
- `Question name`: The text of the question
- `Title`: The title of the table that the question refers to
- `step1` to `step4`: Steps describing the reasoning process and operations used to answer the question
- `type`: `Operation` or `Reasoning`
- `name`: Name of the specific operation or reasoning type
- `detail`: Additional details about the step
- `Answer`: The answer text
- `Directness`: `Explicit` or `Implicit` question
- `Composition Type`: `Bridging`, `Intersection`, or `Comparison`
-
### Reasoning and Operations
The reasoning and operations referenced in the `step` fields come from a defined taxonomy:
**Operations:**
- Indexing
- Filtering
- Grouping
- Sorting
**Reasoning:**
- Grounding
- Auto-categorization
- Temporal Reasoning
- Geographical/Spatial Reasoning
- Aggregating
- Arithmetic
- Reasoning with Quantifiers
- Other Commonsense Reasoning
### Contact 📧
For inquiries or updates about this repository, please contact [zhehao.zhang.gr@dartmouth.edu]. 📬
### Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:
```
@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2023-crt,
title = "{CRT}-{QA}: A Dataset of Complex Reasoning Question Answering over Tabular Data",
author = "Zhang, Zhehao and
Li, Xitao and
Gao, Yan and
Lou, Jian-Guang",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.132",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.132",
pages = "2131--2153",
abstract = "Large language models (LLMs) show powerful reasoning abilities on various text-based tasks. However, their reasoning capability on structured data such as tables has not been systematically explored. In this work, we first establish a comprehensive taxonomy of reasoning and operation types for tabular data analysis. Then, we construct a complex reasoning QA dataset over tabular data, named CRT-QA dataset (Complex Reasoning QA over Tabular data), with the following unique features: (1) it is the first Table QA dataset with multi-step operation and informal reasoning; (2) it contains fine-grained annotations on questions{'} directness, composition types of sub-questions, and human reasoning paths which can be used to conduct a thorough investigation on LLMs{'} reasoning ability; (3) it contains a collection of unanswerable and indeterminate questions that commonly arise in real-world situations. We further introduce an efficient and effective tool-augmented method, named ARC (Auto-exemplar-guided Reasoning with Code), to use external tools such as Pandas to solve table reasoning tasks without handcrafted demonstrations. The experiment results show that CRT-QA presents a strong challenge for baseline methods and ARC achieves the best result.",
}
``` |