ReadingProtocol: code, evaluation data and saved records for traceable question answering over complex engineering tables

Code, evaluation data and saved evaluation records accompanying the paper “Constrained Planning and Deterministic Execution for Traceable Question Answering over Complex Tables in Engineering Standards” (submitted). ReadingProtocol separates a model-written plan from deterministic reading, composition and verification, and records the evidence for each answer. The package contains the source code and tests; the synthetic tables, questions and keys; the engineering table crops (public US-government standards, with per-file provenance), questions, keys and gold transcriptions; and the saved plans, outputs, grades, adjudications and evidence-assessment records behind the reported results, with a SHA-256 manifest (records/MANIFEST.sha256). The engineering result is a composite of original results and saved-plan replays and is not a fresh evaluation of one frozen implementation. HiTab tables are not redistributed; question identifiers and selection lists are provided. Confidential and licensed standards are not included. See SHARE.md.