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ExpertQA

ExpertQA is a benchmark dataset and evaluation framework for assessing the factual accuracy and source attribution of long-form question-answering systems across specialized academic and professional domains. Developed to measure how effectively language models handle complex, high-stakes inquiries in fields such as medicine, law, and engineering, it consists of questions authored by subject-matter experts across dozens of disciplines alongside detailed answers evaluated and refined for verifiable claim attribution. By prioritizing expert judgment over crowdsourced annotations, it provides a standard for testing whether automated systems can generate domain-specific information that is factually reliable and grounded in credible sources.

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ExpertQA: Expert-Curated Questions and Attributed Answers

ExpertQA: Expert-Curated Questions and Attributed Answers

Chaitanya Malaviya, Subin Lee, Sihao Chen, Elizabeth Sieber, Mark Yatskar, Dan Roth

OrganizationsUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Washington

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Presents a high-quality benchmark of 2,177 domain-specific questions across 32 fields to evaluate the factuality and citation quality of language model responses through direct assessment and revision by verified domain experts.

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is especially the case for high-stakes fields, such as medicine and law, where the risk of propagating false information is high and can lead to undesirable societal consequences. Previous work studying attribution and factuality has not focused on analyzing these characteristics of language model outputs in domain-specific scenarios. In this work, we conduct human evaluation of responses from a few representative systems along various axes of attribution and factuality, by bringing domain experts in the loop. Specifically, we collect expert-curated questions from 484 participants across 32 fields of study, and then ask the same experts to evaluate generated responses to their own questions. In addition, we ask experts to improve upon responses from language models. The output of our analysis is ExpertQA, a high-quality long-form QA dataset with 2177 questions spanning 32 fields, along with verified answers and attributions for claims in the answers.1

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2026-09-26