Dataset Card for "com_qa"
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: http://qa.mpi-inf.mpg.de/comqa/
- Repository: More Information Needed
- Paper: More Information Needed
- Point of Contact: More Information Needed
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.59 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.05 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 2.65 MB
Dataset Summary
ComQA is a dataset of 11,214 questions, which were collected from WikiAnswers, a community question answering website. By collecting questions from such a site we ensure that the information needs are ones of interest to actual users. Moreover, questions posed there are often cannot be answered by commercial search engines or QA technology, making them more interesting for driving future research compared to those collected from an engine's query log. The dataset contains questions with various challenging phenomena such as the need for temporal reasoning, comparison (e.g., comparatives, superlatives, ordinals), compositionality (multiple, possibly nested, subquestions with multiple entities), and unanswerable questions (e.g., Who was the first human being on Mars?). Through a large crowdsourcing effort, questions in ComQA are grouped into 4,834 paraphrase clusters that express the same information need. Each cluster is annotated with its answer(s). ComQA answers come in the form of Wikipedia entities wherever possible. Wherever the answers are temporal or measurable quantities, TIMEX3 and the International System of Units (SI) are used for normalization.
Supported Tasks
Languages
Dataset Structure
We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.
Data Instances
default
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.59 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.05 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 2.65 MB
An example of 'validation' looks as follows.
{
"answers": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/north_sea"],
"cluster_id": "cluster-922",
"questions": ["what sea separates the scandinavia peninsula from britain?", "which sea separates britain from scandinavia?"]
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
default
cluster_id: astringfeature.questions: alistofstringfeatures.answers: alistofstringfeatures.
Data Splits Sample Size
| name | train | validation | test |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | 3966 | 966 | 2243 |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
Annotations
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Citation Information
@inproceedings{abujabal-etal-2019-comqa,
title = "{ComQA: A Community-sourced Dataset for Complex Factoid Question Answering with Paraphrase Clusters",
author = {Abujabal, Abdalghani and
Saha Roy, Rishiraj and
Yahya, Mohamed and
Weikum, Gerhard},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)},
month = {jun},
year = {2019},
address = {Minneapolis, Minnesota},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1027},
doi = {10.18653/v1/N19-1027{,
pages = {307--317},
}
Contributions
Thanks to @lewtun, @thomwolf, @mariamabarham, @patrickvonplaten, @albertvillanova for adding this dataset.