arXiv AI
Jul 1

HistoriQA-ThirdRepublic: Multi-Hop Question Answering Corpus for Historical Research, Parliamentary Debates from the French Third Republic (1870-1940)

arXiv:2606. 31325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HistoriQA-ThirdRepublic: a French-language dataset of multi-hop historical questions derived from parliamentary debates and newspapers of the French Third Republic.

By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez (EPITA, LRE), Marie Puren (LRE, CJM)
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Reading Between the Lines: Can LLMs Discover the Question Behind the Text?

The paper introduces "question archaeology," an evaluation task that asks models to infer the single, authentic question that motivated a text. It presents a new dataset of commissioned texts paired with their original research questions and distractors, and evaluates both proprietary and open‑source LLMs. Results show newer models outperform older ones, with BERT-based models lagging, and current LLMs even surpassing human performance on this task.

By Claudiu Creanga, Liviu P. Dinu