IslamicPCQA: A Dataset for Persian Multi-hop Complex Question Answering in Islamic Text Resources

TL;DR

IslamicPCQA is a pioneering Persian dataset for multi-hop complex question answering in Islamic texts, enabling advanced reasoning over non-structured sources with supporting facts.

Contribution

It introduces the first Persian multi-hop QA dataset based on Islamic encyclopedias, tailored for complex reasoning and non-structured information sources.

Findings

Contains 12,282 question-answer pairs

Includes supporting facts and key sentences

Covers diverse Islamic topics

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the main challenges for Question Answering Systems is to answer complex questions using various sources of information. Multi-hop questions are a type of complex questions that require multi-step reasoning to answer. In this article, the IslamicPCQA dataset is introduced. This is the first Persian dataset for answering complex questions based on non-structured information sources and consists of 12,282 question-answer pairs extracted from 9 Islamic encyclopedias. This dataset has been created inspired by the HotpotQA English dataset approach, which was customized to suit the complexities of the Persian language. Answering questions in this dataset requires more than one paragraph and reasoning. The questions are not limited to any prior knowledge base or ontology, and to provide robust reasoning ability, the dataset also includes supporting facts and key sentences. The prepared dataset covers a wide range of Islamic topics and aims to facilitate answering complex Persian questions within this subject matter