Introducing CQuAE : A New French Contextualised Question-Answering Corpus for the Education Domain

Thomas Gerald, Anne Vilnat, Sofiane Ettayeb, Louis Tamames, Patrick Paroubek

Abstract: We present a new question answering corpus in French designed to educational domain. To be useful in such domain, we have to propose more complex questions and to be able to justify the answers on validated material. We analyze some properties of this corpus. The last part of this paper will be devoted to present the first experiments we have carried out to demonstrate the value of this dataset for learning a Retrieval Augmented Genration framework. Different experiments are proposed, with an automatic evaluation. A human evaluation is proposed to confirm or infirm this automatic evaluation.