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Languages:
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Size:
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annotations_creators: [] | |
language_creators: [] | |
language: | |
- en | |
license: | |
- cc-by-sa-4.0 | |
multilinguality: | |
- monolingual | |
paperswithcode_id: beir | |
pretty_name: BEIR Benchmark | |
size_categories: | |
msmarco: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
trec-covid: | |
- 100k<n<1M | |
nfcorpus: | |
- 1K<n<10K | |
nq: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
hotpotqa: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
fiqa: | |
- 10K<n<100K | |
arguana: | |
- 1K<n<10K | |
touche-2020: | |
- 100K<n<1M | |
cqadupstack: | |
- 100K<n<1M | |
quora: | |
- 100K<n<1M | |
dbpedia: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
scidocs: | |
- 10K<n<100K | |
fever: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
climate-fever: | |
- 1M<n<10M | |
scifact: | |
- 1K<n<10K | |
source_datasets: [] | |
task_categories: | |
- text-retrieval | |
- zero-shot-retrieval | |
- information-retrieval | |
- zero-shot-information-retrieval | |
task_ids: | |
- passage-retrieval | |
- entity-linking-retrieval | |
- fact-checking-retrieval | |
- tweet-retrieval | |
- citation-prediction-retrieval | |
- duplication-question-retrieval | |
- argument-retrieval | |
- news-retrieval | |
- biomedical-information-retrieval | |
- question-answering-retrieval | |
# Dataset Card for BEIR Benchmark | |
## 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://github.com/UKPLab/beir | |
- **Repository:** https://github.com/UKPLab/beir | |
- **Paper:** https://openreview.net/forum?id=wCu6T5xFjeJ | |
- **Leaderboard:** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L8aACyPaXrL8iEelJLGqlMqXKPX2oSP_R10pZoy77Ns | |
- **Point of Contact:** nandan.thakur@uwaterloo.ca | |
### Dataset Summary | |
BEIR is a heterogeneous benchmark that has been built from 18 diverse datasets representing 9 information retrieval tasks: | |
- Fact-checking: [FEVER](http://fever.ai), [Climate-FEVER](http://climatefever.ai), [SciFact](https://github.com/allenai/scifact) | |
- Question-Answering: [NQ](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions), [HotpotQA](https://hotpotqa.github.io), [FiQA-2018](https://sites.google.com/view/fiqa/) | |
- Bio-Medical IR: [TREC-COVID](https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/index.html), [BioASQ](http://bioasq.org), [NFCorpus](https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/nfcorpus/) | |
- News Retrieval: [TREC-NEWS](https://trec.nist.gov/data/news2019.html), [Robust04](https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html) | |
- Argument Retrieval: [Touche-2020](https://webis.de/events/touche-20/shared-task-1.html), [ArguAna](tp://argumentation.bplaced.net/arguana/data) | |
- Duplicate Question Retrieval: [Quora](https://www.quora.com/q/quoradata/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs), [CqaDupstack](http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/resources/cqadupstack/) | |
- Citation-Prediction: [SCIDOCS](https://allenai.org/data/scidocs) | |
- Tweet Retrieval: [Signal-1M](https://research.signal-ai.com/datasets/signal1m-tweetir.html) | |
- Entity Retrieval: [DBPedia](https://github.com/iai-group/DBpedia-Entity/) | |
All these datasets have been preprocessed and can be used for your experiments. | |
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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards | |
The dataset supports a leaderboard that evaluates models against task-specific metrics such as F1 or EM, as well as their ability to retrieve supporting information from Wikipedia. | |
The current best performing models can be found [here](https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/689/leaderboard/). | |
### Languages | |
All tasks are in English (`en`). | |
## Dataset Structure | |
All BEIR datasets must contain a corpus, queries and qrels (relevance judgments file). They must be in the following format: | |
- `corpus` file: a `.jsonl` file (jsonlines) that contains a list of dictionaries, each with three fields `_id` with unique document identifier, `title` with document title (optional) and `text` with document paragraph or passage. For example: `{"_id": "doc1", "title": "Albert Einstein", "text": "Albert Einstein was a German-born...."}` | |
- `queries` file: a `.jsonl` file (jsonlines) that contains a list of dictionaries, each with two fields `_id` with unique query identifier and `text` with query text. For example: `{"_id": "q1", "text": "Who developed the mass-energy equivalence formula?"}` | |
- `qrels` file: a `.tsv` file (tab-seperated) that contains three columns, i.e. the `query-id`, `corpus-id` and `score` in this order. Keep 1st row as header. For example: `q1 doc1 1` | |
### Data Instances | |
A high level example of any beir dataset: | |
```python | |
corpus = { | |
"doc1" : { | |
"title": "Albert Einstein", | |
"text": "Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. who developed the theory of relativity, \ | |
one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for \ | |
its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy \ | |
equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed 'the world's most famous equation'. He received the 1921 \ | |
Nobel Prize in Physics 'for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law \ | |
of the photoelectric effect', a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory." | |
}, | |
"doc2" : { | |
"title": "", # Keep title an empty string if not present | |
"text": "Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of \ | |
malted barley. The two main varieties are German Weißbier and Belgian witbier; other types include Lambic (made\ | |
with wild yeast), Berliner Weisse (a cloudy, sour beer), and Gose (a sour, salty beer)." | |
}, | |
} | |
queries = { | |
"q1" : "Who developed the mass-energy equivalence formula?", | |
"q2" : "Which beer is brewed with a large proportion of wheat?" | |
} | |
qrels = { | |
"q1" : {"doc1": 1}, | |
"q2" : {"doc2": 1}, | |
} | |
``` | |
### Data Fields | |
Examples from all configurations have the following features: | |
### Corpus | |
- `corpus`: a `dict` feature representing the document title and passage text, made up of: | |
- `_id`: a `string` feature representing the unique document id | |
- `title`: a `string` feature, denoting the title of the document. | |
- `text`: a `string` feature, denoting the text of the document. | |
### Queries | |
- `queries`: a `dict` feature representing the query, made up of: | |
- `_id`: a `string` feature representing the unique query id | |
- `text`: a `string` feature, denoting the text of the query. | |
### Qrels | |
- `qrels`: a `dict` feature representing the query document relevance judgements, made up of: | |
- `_id`: a `string` feature representing the query id | |
- `_id`: a `string` feature, denoting the document id. | |
- `score`: a `int32` feature, denoting the relevance judgement between query and document. | |
### Data Splits | |
| Dataset | Website| BEIR-Name | Type | Queries | Corpus | Rel D/Q | Down-load | md5 | | |
| -------- | -----| ---------| --------- | ----------- | ---------| ---------| :----------: | :------:| | |
| MSMARCO | [Homepage](https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/)| ``msmarco`` | ``train``<br>``dev``<br>``test``| 6,980 | 8.84M | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/msmarco.zip) | ``444067daf65d982533ea17ebd59501e4`` | | |
| TREC-COVID | [Homepage](https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/index.html)| ``trec-covid``| ``test``| 50| 171K| 493.5 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/trec-covid.zip) | ``ce62140cb23feb9becf6270d0d1fe6d1`` | | |
| NFCorpus | [Homepage](https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/nfcorpus/) | ``nfcorpus`` | ``train``<br>``dev``<br>``test``| 323 | 3.6K | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nfcorpus.zip) | ``a89dba18a62ef92f7d323ec890a0d38d`` | | |
| BioASQ | [Homepage](http://bioasq.org) | ``bioasq``| ``train``<br>``test`` | 500 | 14.91M | 8.05 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#2-bioasq) | | |
| NQ | [Homepage](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions) | ``nq``| ``train``<br>``test``| 3,452 | 2.68M | 1.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nq.zip) | ``d4d3d2e48787a744b6f6e691ff534307`` | | |
| HotpotQA | [Homepage](https://hotpotqa.github.io) | ``hotpotqa``| ``train``<br>``dev``<br>``test``| 7,405 | 5.23M | 2.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/hotpotqa.zip) | ``f412724f78b0d91183a0e86805e16114`` | | |
| FiQA-2018 | [Homepage](https://sites.google.com/view/fiqa/) | ``fiqa`` | ``train``<br>``dev``<br>``test``| 648 | 57K | 2.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fiqa.zip) | ``17918ed23cd04fb15047f73e6c3bd9d9`` | | |
| Signal-1M(RT) | [Homepage](https://research.signal-ai.com/datasets/signal1m-tweetir.html)| ``signal1m`` | ``test``| 97 | 2.86M | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#4-signal-1m) | | |
| TREC-NEWS | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/news2019.html) | ``trec-news`` | ``test``| 57 | 595K | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#1-trec-news) | | |
| ArguAna | [Homepage](http://argumentation.bplaced.net/arguana/data) | ``arguana``| ``test`` | 1,406 | 8.67K | 1.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/arguana.zip) | ``8ad3e3c2a5867cdced806d6503f29b99`` | | |
| Touche-2020| [Homepage](https://webis.de/events/touche-20/shared-task-1.html) | ``webis-touche2020``| ``test``| 49 | 382K | 19.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/webis-touche2020.zip) | ``46f650ba5a527fc69e0a6521c5a23563`` | | |
| CQADupstack| [Homepage](http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/resources/cqadupstack/) | ``cqadupstack``| ``test``| 13,145 | 457K | 1.4 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/cqadupstack.zip) | ``4e41456d7df8ee7760a7f866133bda78`` | | |
| Quora| [Homepage](https://www.quora.com/q/quoradata/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs) | ``quora``| ``dev``<br>``test``| 10,000 | 523K | 1.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/quora.zip) | ``18fb154900ba42a600f84b839c173167`` | | |
| DBPedia | [Homepage](https://github.com/iai-group/DBpedia-Entity/) | ``dbpedia-entity``| ``dev``<br>``test``| 400 | 4.63M | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/dbpedia-entity.zip) | ``c2a39eb420a3164af735795df012ac2c`` | | |
| SCIDOCS| [Homepage](https://allenai.org/data/scidocs) | ``scidocs``| ``test``| 1,000 | 25K | 4.9 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scidocs.zip) | ``38121350fc3a4d2f48850f6aff52e4a9`` | | |
| FEVER | [Homepage](http://fever.ai) | ``fever``| ``train``<br>``dev``<br>``test``| 6,666 | 5.42M | 1.2| [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fever.zip) | ``5a818580227bfb4b35bb6fa46d9b6c03`` | | |
| Climate-FEVER| [Homepage](http://climatefever.ai) | ``climate-fever``|``test``| 1,535 | 5.42M | 3.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/climate-fever.zip) | ``8b66f0a9126c521bae2bde127b4dc99d`` | | |
| SciFact| [Homepage](https://github.com/allenai/scifact) | ``scifact``| ``train``<br>``test``| 300 | 5K | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scifact.zip) | ``5f7d1de60b170fc8027bb7898e2efca1`` | | |
| Robust04 | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html) | ``robust04``| ``test``| 249 | 528K | 69.9 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#3-robust04) | | |
## Dataset Creation | |
### Curation Rationale | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Source Data | |
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization | |
[Needs More Information] | |
#### Who are the source language producers? | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Annotations | |
#### Annotation process | |
[Needs More Information] | |
#### Who are the annotators? | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Personal and Sensitive Information | |
[Needs More Information] | |
## Considerations for Using the Data | |
### Social Impact of Dataset | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Discussion of Biases | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Other Known Limitations | |
[Needs More Information] | |
## Additional Information | |
### Dataset Curators | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Licensing Information | |
[Needs More Information] | |
### Citation Information | |
Cite as: | |
``` | |
@inproceedings{ | |
thakur2021beir, | |
title={{BEIR}: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models}, | |
author={Nandan Thakur and Nils Reimers and Andreas R{\"u}ckl{\'e} and Abhishek Srivastava and Iryna Gurevych}, | |
booktitle={Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)}, | |
year={2021}, | |
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=wCu6T5xFjeJ} | |
} | |
``` | |
### Contributions | |
Thanks to [@Nthakur20](https://github.com/Nthakur20) for adding this dataset. |