SportQA: A Benchmark for Sports Understanding in Large Language Models
This provides a domain-specific tool for assessing and improving sports understanding in LLMs, addressing a gap in specialized benchmarks for NLP.
The authors introduced SportQA, a benchmark with over 70,000 multiple-choice questions across three difficulty levels to evaluate sports understanding in large language models (LLMs). They found that LLMs perform well on basic sports knowledge but struggle with complex scenario-based reasoning, lagging behind human expertise.
A deep understanding of sports, a field rich in strategic and dynamic content, is crucial for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP). This holds particular significance in the context of evaluating and advancing Large Language Models (LLMs), given the existing gap in specialized benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we introduce SportQA, a novel benchmark specifically designed for evaluating LLMs in the context of sports understanding. SportQA encompasses over 70,000 multiple-choice questions across three distinct difficulty levels, each targeting different aspects of sports knowledge from basic historical facts to intricate, scenario-based reasoning tasks. We conducted a thorough evaluation of prevalent LLMs, mainly utilizing few-shot learning paradigms supplemented by chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting. Our results reveal that while LLMs exhibit competent performance in basic sports knowledge, they struggle with more complex, scenario-based sports reasoning, lagging behind human expertise. The introduction of SportQA marks a significant step forward in NLP, offering a tool for assessing and enhancing sports understanding in LLMs.