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# MoreHopQA: More Than Multi-hop Reasoning

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We propose a new multi-hop dataset, MoreHopQA, which shifts from extractive to generative answers. Our dataset is created by utilizing three existing multi-hop datasets: [HotpotQA](https://github.com/hotpotqa/hotpot), [2Wiki-MultihopQA](https://github.com/Alab-NII/2wikimultihop), and [MuSiQue](https://github.com/StonyBrookNLP/musique). Instead of relying solely on factual reasoning, we enhance the existing multi-hop questions by adding another layer of questioning.

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<img src="figures/overall-1.png" style="width:50%">
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## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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Our dataset is created through a semi-automated process, resulting in a dataset with 1118 samples that have undergone human verification.  
For each sample, we share our 6 evaluation cases, including the new question, the original question, all the necessary subquestions, and a composite question from the second entity to the final answer (case 3 above).
We share both a version where each question was verified by a human, and a larger, solely automatically generated version ("unverified"). We recommend to primarily use the human-verified version.

- **Curated by:** Aizawa Lab, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English
- <p xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><b>License:</b> The <a property="dct:title" rel="cc:attributionURL" href="https://github.com/Alab-NII/morehopqa">MorehopQA</a> dataset is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer" style="display:inline-block;">CC BY 4.0</a></p>



### Dataset Sources

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- **Repository:** [github.com/Alab-NII/morehopqa](https://github.com/Alab-NII/morehopqa)
- **Paper:** [arxiv.org/abs/2406.13397](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13397)

## Uses

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We provide our dataset to the community and hope that other researchers find it a useful tool to analyze and improve the multi-hop reasoning capabilities of their models. MoreHopQA is designed to challenge systems with complex queries requiring synthesis from multiple sources, thereby advancing the field in understanding and generating nuanced, context-rich responses. Additionally, we aim for this dataset to spur further innovation in reasoning models, helping to bridge the gap between human-like understanding and AI capabilities.

## Dataset Structure

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We share both a version where each question was verified by a human, and a larger, solely automatically generated version ("unverified"). We recommend to primarily use the human-verified version, which is also the default option when loading the dataset.

Each sample in the dataset contains the following fields:

- **question**: Our new multi-hop question with added reasoning (case 1 above)
- **answer**: The answer to the last hop (case 1, 3 and 4 above)
- **context**: Relevant context information to answer the previous question (relevant for all cases except case 4)
- **previous_question**: The previous 2-hop question from the original dataset (case 2 above)
- **previous_answer**: The answer to the previous 2-hop question (case 2 and 5 above)
- **question_decomposition**: Each question of the reasoning chain. List of entries with keys "sub_id" (position in the chain), "question", "answer", "paragraph_support_title" (relevant context paragraph). (sub_id 1 &#8594; case 6; sub_id 2 &#8594; case 5; sub_id 3 &#8594; case 4)
- **question_on_last_hop**: Question for case 3 above
- **answer_type**: Type of the expected answer
- **previous_answer_type**: Type of the answer to the previous 2-hop question
- **no_of_hops**: Number of extra hops to answer the additional reasoning question (might be more than one for more complicated tasks)
- **reasoning_type**: Might contain "Symbolic", "Arithmetic", "Commonsense"; depending on which kind of reasoning is required for the additional reasoning
  
## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

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Our dataset is created by utilizing three existing multi-hop datasets: [HotpotQA](https://github.com/hotpotqa/hotpot), [2Wiki-MultihopQA](https://github.com/Alab-NII/2wikimultihop), and [MuSiQue](https://github.com/StonyBrookNLP/musique)

## Citation

If you find this dataset helpful, please consider citing our paper

**BibTeX:**

```
@misc{schnitzler2024morehopqa,
      title={MoreHopQA: More Than Multi-hop Reasoning}, 
      author={Julian Schnitzler and Xanh Ho and Jiahao Huang and Florian Boudin and Saku Sugawara and Akiko Aizawa},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.13397},
      archivePrefix={arXiv}
}
```