--- 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``dev``
``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``
``dev``
``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``
``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``
``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``
``dev``
``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``
``dev``
``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``
``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``
``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``
``dev``
``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``
``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.