MilKBQA: A Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering Dataset on Chinese Military Field

Facts in military field tend to involve elements of time, space, quantity, status, and so on. Existing methods of representing knowledge in the form of triples fail to adequately express these facts, and also cause obstacles to knowledge storage and updating. Furthermore, question answering on these facts introduces new complexity dimension, which are complicated to be supported by existing corpus. Thus, we construct a Chinese knowledge base for military field covering entities and events centric knowledge, referred as MilKB. It consists of 965 entities and 3,017 facts. Moreover, we classify the natural questions into 26 types and construct a complex question answering dataset derived from MilKB, referred as MilKBQA. It consists of 2,829 question-answer pairs, in which 600 are event-centric ones. Experiments with three recent strong baseline models demonstrate that MilKBQA requires further research.