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# Dataset Card for "cmu_wiki_qa"

A filtered / cleaned version of the http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/QA-data/ Q&A dataset, which provides manually-generated factoid questions from Wikipedia articles.

**Acknowledgments**
These data were collected by Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, Rebecca Hwa, Shay Cohen, Kevin Gimpel, and many students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh between 2008 and 2010.
 
Their research project was supported by NSF IIS-0713265 (to Smith), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (to Heilman), NSF IIS-0712810 and IIS-0745914 (to Hwa), and Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education R305B040063 (to Carnegie Mellon).

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