TAT-QA (Tabular And Textual dataset for Question Answering) is a large-scale QA dataset, aiming to stimulate progress of QA research over more complex and realistic tabular and textual data, especially those requiring numerical reasoning.

The unique features of TAT-QA include:

• The context given is hybrid, comprising a semi-structured table and at least two relevant paragraphs that describe, analyze or complement the table;
• The questions are generated by the humans with rich financial knowledge, most are practical;
• The answer forms are diverse, including single span, multiple spans and free-form;
• To answer the questions, various numerical reasoning capabilities are usually required, including addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (x), division (/), counting, comparison, sorting, and their compositions;In addition to the ground-truth answers, the corresponding derivations and scale are also provided if any.

In total, TAT-QA contains 16,552 questions associated with 2,757 hybrid contexts from real-world financial reports.