multilinguality:monolingual language:en license:cc-by-nc-3.0 region:us
The SciQ dataset contains 13,679 crowdsourced science exam questions about Physics, Chemistry and Biology, among others. The questions are in multiple-choice format with 4 answer options each. For most questions, an additional paragraph with supporting evidence for the correct answer is provided.
@inproceedings{welbl-etal-2017-crowdsourcing,
    title = "Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions",
    author = "Welbl, Johannes  and
      Liu, Nelson F.  and
      Gardner, Matt",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-4413",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-4413",
    pages = "94--106",
}

---
language: 
- en
bigbio_language: 
- English
license: cc-by-nc-3.0
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: CC_BY_NC_3p0
pretty_name: SciQ
homepage: https://allenai.org/data/sciq
bigbio_pubmed: False
bigbio_public: True
bigbio_tasks: 
- QUESTION_ANSWERING
---


# Dataset Card for SciQ

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://allenai.org/data/sciq
- **Pubmed:** False
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** QA


The SciQ dataset contains 13,679 crowdsourced science exam questions about Physics, Chemistry and Biology, among others. The questions are in multiple-choice format with 4 answer options each. For most questions, an additional paragraph with supporting evidence for the correct answer is provided.



## Citation Information

```

@inproceedings{welbl-etal-2017-crowdsourcing,
    title = "Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions",
    author = "Welbl, Johannes  and
      Liu, Nelson F.  and
      Gardner, Matt",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-4413",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-4413",
    pages = "94--106",
}

```
