arXiv:2605.10168cs.CLcs.IR2026-05

构建首个面向文档的抽象问答基准,精准评估答案覆盖与幻觉。

ASTRA-QA: A Benchmark for Abstract Question Answering over Documents

论文配图:ASTRA-QA: A Benchmark for Abstract Question Answering over Documents
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  • 设计五类抽象问题,支持跨文档信息整合
  • 869个实例含明确标注的关键词与证据链
  • 无需逐对比较,可量化评估覆盖与幻觉

基于文档的问答正越来越多涉及需要从长文档或多个文档中整合零散信息形成连贯答案的抽象问题。然而现有基准和评估方法仍不充分,常缺乏稳定的抽象参考,依赖粗粒度相似性度量或不稳定的直接对比。为此,我们提出 ASTRA-QA,一个面向文档的抽象问答基准。该数据集包含869个来自学术论文和新闻文档的问答实例,涵盖五类抽象问题类型和三种受控检索范围。每个实例均配有显式评估标注,包括答案主题集合、精选无关主题及对齐证据。基于这些标注,ASTRA-QA通过直接评分主题覆盖和精选无关内容,评估答案是否涵盖必要要点并避免无根据内容,实现无需全面逐对比较的可扩展评估。对代表性检索增强生成(RAG)方法(包括基础、图结构、层次化检索设置)的实验表明,ASTRA-QA能提供基于参考的覆盖、幻觉及检索范围鲁棒性诊断。数据集与代码已公开于 https://xinyangsally.github.io/astra-benchmark。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Document-based question answering (QA) increasingly includes abstract questions that require synthesizing scattered information from long documents or across multiple documents into coherent answers. However, this setting is still poorly supported by existing benchmarks and evaluation methods, which often lack stable abstract references or rely on coarse similarity metrics and unstable head-to-head comparisons. To alleviate this issue, we introduce ASTRA-QA, a benchmark for AbSTRAct Question Answering over documents. ASTRA-QA contains 869 QA instances over academic papers and news documents, covering five abstract question types and three controlled retrieval scopes. Each instance is equipped with explicit evaluation annotations, including answer topic sets, curated unsupported topics, and aligned evidence. Building on these annotations, ASTRA-QA assesses whether answers cover required key points and avoid unsupported content by directly scoring topic coverage and curated unsupported content, enabling scalable evaluation without exhaustive head-to-head comparisons. Experiments with representative Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods spanning vanilla, graph-based, and hierarchical retrieval settings show that ASTRA-QA provides reference-grounded diagnostics for coverage, hallucination, and retrieval-scope robustness. Our dataset and code are available at https://xinyangsally.github.io/astra-benchmark.

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