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metadata
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
dataset_info:
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        - name: verbalized_triple
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        - name: verbalized_type_list
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    - name: test
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    - name: validation
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      num_examples: 16813
  download_size: 2406342185
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configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
      - split: validation
        path: data/validation-*
task_categories:
  - conversational
  - question-answering
tags:
  - qa
  - knowledge-graph
  - sparql
  - multi-hop
language:
  - en

Dataset Card for CSQA-SPARQLtoText

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

CSQA corpus (Complex Sequential Question-Answering, see https://amritasaha1812.github.io/CSQA/) is a large corpus for conversational knowledge-based question answering. The version here is augmented with various fields to make it easier to run specific tasks, especially SPARQL-to-text conversion.

The original data has been post-processing as follows:

  1. Verbalization templates were applied on the answers and their entities were verbalized (replaced by their label in Wikidata)

  2. Questions were parsed using the CARTON algorithm to produce a sequence of action in a specific grammar

  3. Sequence of actions were mapped to SPARQL queries and entities were verbalized (replaced by their label in Wikidata)

Supported tasks

  • Knowledge-based question-answering
  • Text-to-SPARQL conversion

Knowledge based question-answering

Below is an example of dialogue:

  • Q1: Which occupation is the profession of Edmond Yernaux ?
  • A1: politician
  • Q2: Which collectable has that occupation as its principal topic ?
  • A2: Notitia Parliamentaria, An History of the Counties, etc.

SPARQL queries and natural language questions

SELECT DISTINCT ?x WHERE
{ ?x rdf:type ontology:occupation . resource:Edmond_Yernaux property:occupation ?x }

is equivalent to:

Which occupation is the profession of Edmond Yernaux ?

Languages

  • English

Dataset Structure

The corpus follows the global architecture from the original version of CSQA (https://amritasaha1812.github.io/CSQA/).

There is one directory of the train, dev, and test sets, respectively.

Dialogues are stored in separate directories, 100 dialogues per directory.

Finally, each dialogue is stored in a JSON file as a list of turns.

Types of questions

Comparison of question types compared to related datasets:

SimpleQuestions ParaQA LC-QuAD 2.0 CSQA WebNLQ-QA
Number of triplets in query 1 βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
2 βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
More βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Logical connector between triplets Conjunction βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Disjunction βœ“ βœ“
Exclusion βœ“ βœ“
Topology of the query graph Direct βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Sibling βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Chain βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Mixed βœ“ βœ“
Other βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Variable typing in the query None βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Target variable βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Internal variable βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Comparisons clauses None βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
String βœ“ βœ“
Number βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Date βœ“ βœ“
Superlative clauses No βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Yes βœ“
Answer type Entity (open) βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Entity (closed) βœ“ βœ“
Number βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Boolean βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Answer cardinality 0 (unanswerable) βœ“ βœ“
1 βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
More βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Number of target variables 0 (β‡’ ASK verb) βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
1 βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
2 βœ“ βœ“
Dialogue context Self-sufficient βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Coreference βœ“ βœ“
Ellipsis βœ“ βœ“
Meaning Meaningful βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Non-sense βœ“

Data splits

Text verbalization is only available for a subset of the test set, referred to as challenge set. Other sample only contain dialogues in the form of follow-up sparql queries.

Train Validation Test
Questions 1.5M 167K 260K
Dialogues 152K 17K 28K
NL question per query 1
Characters per query 163 (Β± 100)
Tokens per question 10 (Β± 4)

JSON fields

Each turn of a dialogue contains the following fields:

Original fields

  • ques_type_id: ID corresponding to the question utterance

  • description: Description of type of question

  • relations: ID's of predicates used in the utterance

  • entities_in_utterance: ID's of entities used in the question

  • speaker: The nature of speaker: SYSTEM or USER

  • utterance: The utterance: either the question, clarification or response

  • active_set: A regular expression which identifies the entity set of answer list

  • all_entities: List of ALL entities which constitute the answer of the question

  • question-type: Type of question (broad types used for evaluation as given in the original authors' paper)

  • type_list: List containing entity IDs of all entity parents used in the question

New fields

  • is_spurious: introduced by CARTON,

  • is_incomplete: either the question is self-sufficient (complete) or it relies on information given by the previous turns (incomplete)

  • parsed_active_set:

  • gold_actions: sequence of ACTIONs as returned by CARTON

  • sparql_query: SPARQL query

Verbalized fields

Fields with verbalized in their name are verbalized versions of another fields, ie IDs were replaced by actual words/labels.

Format of the SPARQL queries

  • Clauses are in random order

  • Variables names are represented as random letters. The letters change from one turn to another.

  • Delimiters are spaced

Additional Information

Licensing Information

  • Content from original dataset: CC-BY-SA 4.0

  • New content: CC BY-SA 4.0

Citation Information

This version of the corpus (with SPARQL queries)

@inproceedings{lecorve2022sparql2text,
  title={SPARQL-to-Text Question Generation for Knowledge-Based Conversational Applications},
  author={Lecorv\'e, Gw\'enol\'e and Veyret, Morgan and Brabant, Quentin and Rojas-Barahona, Lina M.},
  journal={Proceedings of the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP)},
  year={2022}
}

Original corpus (CSQA)

@InProceedings{saha2018complex,
    title = {Complex {Sequential} {Question} {Answering}: {Towards} {Learning} to {Converse} {Over} {Linked} {Question} {Answer} {Pairs} with a {Knowledge} {Graph}},
    volume = {32},
    issn = {2374-3468},
    url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/11332},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    author = {Saha, Amrita and Pahuja, Vardaan and Khapra, Mitesh and Sankaranarayanan, Karthik and Chandar, Sarath},
    month = apr,
    year = {2018}
}

CARTON

@InProceedings{plepi2021context,
    author="Plepi, Joan and Kacupaj, Endri and Singh, Kuldeep and Thakkar, Harsh and Lehmann, Jens",
    editor="Verborgh, Ruben and Hose, Katja and Paulheim, Heiko and Champin, Pierre-Antoine and Maleshkova, Maria and Corcho, Oscar and Ristoski, Petar and Alam, Mehwish",
    title="Context Transformer with Stacked Pointer Networks for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs",
    booktitle="Proceedings of The Semantic Web",
    year="2021",
    publisher="Springer International Publishing",
    pages="356--371",
    isbn="978-3-030-77385-4"
}