---
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- en
language_creators:
- found
license:
- cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: Question Answering for Artificial Intelligence (QuAIL)
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- multiple-choice
task_ids:
- multiple-choice-qa
paperswithcode_id: quail
dataset_info:
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  - name: id
    dtype: string
  - name: context_id
    dtype: string
  - name: question_id
    dtype: string
  - name: domain
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  - name: metadata
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    - name: author
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    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: url
      dtype: string
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    dtype: string
  - name: question
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  - name: question_type
    dtype: string
  - name: answers
    sequence: string
  - name: correct_answer_id
    dtype: int32
  config_name: quail
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  - name: challenge
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    num_examples: 556
  - name: train
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    num_examples: 10246
  - name: validation
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  download_size: 6402933
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---

# Dataset Card for "quail"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://text-machine-lab.github.io/blog/2020/quail/](https://text-machine-lab.github.io/blog/2020/quail/)
- **Repository:** https://github.com/text-machine-lab/quail
- **Paper:** [Getting Closer to AI Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Real Tasks](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6398 )
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 6.11 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 28.25 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 34.36 MB

### Dataset Summary

QuAIL is a  reading comprehension dataset. QuAIL contains 15K multi-choice questions in texts 300-350 tokens long 4 domains (news, user stories, fiction, blogs).QuAIL is balanced and annotated for question types.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### quail

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 6.11 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 28.25 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 34.36 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": ["the cousin is not friendly", "the cousin could have been pretier", "not enough information", "the cousin was too nice"],
    "context": "\"That fall came and I went back to Michigan and the school year went by and summer came and I never really thought about it. I'm...",
    "context_id": "f001",
    "correct_answer_id": 0,
    "domain": "fiction",
    "id": "f001_19",
    "metadata": {
        "author": "Joseph Devon",
        "title": "Black Eyed Susan",
        "url": "http://manybooks.net/pages/devonjother08black_eyed_susan/0.html"
    },
    "question": "After the events in the text what does the author think about the cousin?",
    "question_id": "19",
    "question_type": "Subsequent_state"
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### quail
- `id`: a `string` feature.
- `context_id`: a `string` feature.
- `question_id`: a `string` feature.
- `domain`: a `string` feature.
- `author`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.
- `url`: a `string` feature.
- `context`: a `string` feature.
- `question`: a `string` feature.
- `question_type`: a `string` feature.
- `answers`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `correct_answer_id`: a `int32` feature.

### Data Splits

|name |train|challenge|validation|
|-----|----:|--------:|---------:|
|quail|10246|      556|      2164|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/RogersKDR20,
  author    = {Anna Rogers and
               Olga Kovaleva and
               Matthew Downey and
               Anna Rumshisky},
  title     = {Getting Closer to {AI} Complete Question Answering: {A} Set of Prerequisite
               Real Tasks},
  booktitle = {The Thirty-Fourth {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {AAAI}
               2020, The Thirty-Second Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
               Conference, {IAAI} 2020, The Tenth {AAAI} Symposium on Educational
               Advances in Artificial Intelligence, {EAAI} 2020, New York, NY, USA,
               February 7-12, 2020},
  pages     = {8722--8731},
  publisher = {{AAAI} Press},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6398},
  timestamp = {Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:18:48 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/aaai/RogersKDR20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

```


### Contributions

Thanks to [@sai-prasanna](https://github.com/sai-prasanna), [@ngdodd](https://github.com/ngdodd) for adding this dataset.