arXiv Computation and Language By Iman Barati, Arash Ghafouri, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

XHotpotQA: A Benchmark for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Composition in Multi-Hop Question Answering

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XHotpotQA is a new benchmark for cross‑lingual knowledge composition in multi‑hop question answering. It presents each instance as an evidence‑dependency graph with explicit language assignments for the question, bridge evidence, answer‑bearing evidence, and distractors, and includes 15,661 training and 7,405 validation examples with sentence‑level support supervision. The dataset reveals significant performance drops when evidence spans language boundaries, providing a diagnostic tool for systems that must integrate evidence across languages.

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