---
language:
- ja
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- question-answering
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  - name: question
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  - name: answers
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  - name: test
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  features:
  - name: qid
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  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: answers
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configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
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    path: data/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
- config_name: v1.1
  data_files:
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---

# NIILC Question Answering Dataset

> This project provides a dataset for supporting the development of question answering systems. The data includes questions and their answers, and meta information such as question types, clues to obtain answers, Wikipedia pages in which answers can be found, and SPARQL queries for JWO (Japanese Wikipedia Ontology).


Source: [mynlp/niilc-qa on GitHub](https://github.com/mynlp/niilc-qa/tree/master)

### Data Fields

- `id` (`str`): Unique ID.
- `question`: Question.
- `answers` (`list[str]`): All of the acceptable answers for the question.

### Licensing Information

[Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International](https://github.com/mynlp/niilc-qa/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{sekine2003question,
  title={Development of a question answering system focused on an encyclopedia},
  author={Sekine, Satoshi},
  booktitle={9th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing},
  year={2003},
  language={Japanese}
}
```