Supporting documents in ELI5
Hi @saverymax ! For licensing reasons, the original team was unable to release pre-processed CommonCrawl documents. Instead, they provided a script to re-create them from a CommonCrawl dump, but it unfortunately requires access to a medium-large size cluster:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/ELI5#downloading-support-documents-from-the-commoncrawl

In order to make the task accessible to people who may not have access to this kind of infrastructure, we suggest to use Wikipedia as a knowledge source rather than the full CommonCrawl. The following blog post shows how you can create Wikipedia support documents and get a performance that is on par with a system that uses CommonCrawl pages.
https://yjernite.github.io/lfqa.html#task_description

Hope that helps, using ElasticSearch to index Wiki40b and create the documents should take about 4 hours. Let us know if you have any trouble with the blog post though!
I was attempting to use the ELI5 dataset, when I realized that huggingface does not provide the supporting documents (the source documents from the common crawl). Without the supporting documents, this makes the dataset about as useful for my project as a block of cheese, or some other more apt metaphor.  According to facebook, the entire document collection is quite large. However, it would still be helpful to at least include a subset of the supporting documents i.e., having some data is better than having a block of cheese, in my case at least.

If you choose not to include them, it would be helpful to have documentation mentioning this specifically. It is especially confusing because the hf nlp ELI5 dataset has the key `'document'` but there are no documents to be found :(
Supporting documents in ELI5 
 I was attempting to use the ELI5 dataset, when I realized that huggingface does not provide the supporting documents (the source documents from the common crawl). Without the supporting documents, this makes the dataset about as useful for my project as a block of cheese, or some other more apt metaphor.  According to facebook, the entire document collection is quite large. However, it would still be helpful to at least include a subset of the supporting documents i.e., having some data is better than having a block of cheese, in my case at least.

If you choose not to include them, it would be helpful to have documentation mentioning this specifically. It is especially confusing because the hf nlp ELI5 dataset has the key `'document'` but there are no documents to be found :( 
 Hi @saverymax ! For licensing reasons, the original team was unable to release pre-processed CommonCrawl documents. Instead, they provided a script to re-create them from a CommonCrawl dump, but it unfortunately requires access to a medium-large size cluster:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/ELI5#downloading-support-documents-from-the-commoncrawl

In order to make the task accessible to people who may not have access to this kind of infrastructure, we suggest to use Wikipedia as a knowledge source rather than the full CommonCrawl. The following blog post shows how you can create Wikipedia support documents and get a performance that is on par with a system that uses CommonCrawl pages.
https://yjernite.github.io/lfqa.html#task_description

Hope that helps, using ElasticSearch to index Wiki40b and create the documents should take about 4 hours. Let us know if you have any trouble with the blog post though!