BEnQA: A Question Answering and Reasoning Benchmark for Bengali and English
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| author | Shafayat, Sheikh Hasan, H M Quamran Mahim, Minhajur Rahman Chowdhury Putri, Rifki Afina Thorne, James Oh, Alice |
| author_facet | Shafayat, Sheikh Hasan, H M Quamran Mahim, Minhajur Rahman Chowdhury Putri, Rifki Afina Thorne, James Oh, Alice |
| contents | In this study, we introduce BEnQA, a dataset comprising parallel Bengali and English exam questions for middle and high school levels in Bangladesh. Our dataset consists of approximately 5K questions covering several subjects in science with different types of questions, including factual, application, and reasoning-based questions. We benchmark several Large Language Models (LLMs) with our parallel dataset and observe a notable performance disparity between the models in Bengali and English. We also investigate some prompting methods, and find that Chain-of-Thought prompting is beneficial mostly on reasoning questions, but not so much on factual ones. We also find that appending English translation helps to answer questions in Bengali. Our findings point to promising future research directions for improving the performance of LLMs in Bengali and more generally in low-resource languages. |
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| spellingShingle | BEnQA: A Question Answering and Reasoning Benchmark for Bengali and English Shafayat, Sheikh Hasan, H M Quamran Mahim, Minhajur Rahman Chowdhury Putri, Rifki Afina Thorne, James Oh, Alice Computation and Language In this study, we introduce BEnQA, a dataset comprising parallel Bengali and English exam questions for middle and high school levels in Bangladesh. Our dataset consists of approximately 5K questions covering several subjects in science with different types of questions, including factual, application, and reasoning-based questions. We benchmark several Large Language Models (LLMs) with our parallel dataset and observe a notable performance disparity between the models in Bengali and English. We also investigate some prompting methods, and find that Chain-of-Thought prompting is beneficial mostly on reasoning questions, but not so much on factual ones. We also find that appending English translation helps to answer questions in Bengali. Our findings point to promising future research directions for improving the performance of LLMs in Bengali and more generally in low-resource languages. |
| title | BEnQA: A Question Answering and Reasoning Benchmark for Bengali and English |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10900 |