The Web as a Knowledge-base for Answering Complex Questions
Table 4: precision@1 results on the development set and test set for ComplexWebQuestions.
['[BOLD] System', '[BOLD] Dev.', '[BOLD] Test']
SimpQA, which does not decompose questions obtained 20.8 p@1, while by performing question decomposition we substantially improve performance to 27.5 p@1. An upper bound with perfect knowledge on when to decompose is given by SplitQAOracle at 33.7 p@1.