---
annotations_creators:
- crowd-sourced
language_creators:
- unknown
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
- unknown
size_categories:
- unknown
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- other
task_ids: []
pretty_name: squad_v2
tags:
- question-generation
---

# Dataset Card for GEM/squad_v2

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
- **Repository:** https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03822v1
- **Leaderboard:** https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
- **Point of Contact:** Robin Jia

### Link to Main Data Card

You can find the main data card on the [GEM Website](https://gem-benchmark.com/data_cards/squad_v2).

### Dataset Summary 

SQuAD2.0 is a dataset that tests the ability of a system to not only answer reading comprehension questions, but also abstain when presented with a question that cannot be answered based on the provided paragraph.  F1 score is used to evaluate models on the leaderboard. In GEM, we are using this dataset for the question-generation task in which a model should generate squad-like questions from an input text.

You can load the dataset via:
```
import datasets
data = datasets.load_dataset('GEM/squad_v2')
```
The data loader can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GEM/squad_v2).

#### website
[Website](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)

#### paper
[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03822v1)

#### authors
Pranav Rajpurkar,  Robin Jia and Percy Liang

## Dataset Overview

### Where to find the Data and its Documentation

#### Webpage

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[Website](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)

#### Download

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[Website](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)

#### Paper

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[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03822v1)

#### BibTex

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```
@inproceedings{Rajpurkar2018KnowWY,
  title={Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD},
  author={Pranav Rajpurkar and Robin Jia and Percy Liang},
  booktitle={ACL},
  year={2018}
}
```

#### Contact Name

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Robin Jia

#### Contact Email

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robinjia@stanford.edu

#### Has a Leaderboard?

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yes

#### Leaderboard Link

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[Website](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)

#### Leaderboard Details

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SQuAD2.0 tests the ability of a system to not only answer reading comprehension questions, but also abstain when presented with a question that cannot be answered based on the provided paragraph.  F1 score is used to evaluate models on the leaderboard.


### Languages and Intended Use

#### Multilingual?

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no

#### Covered Languages

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`English`

#### License

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cc-by-sa-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International

#### Intended Use

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The idea behind SQuAD2.0 dataset is to make the models understand when a question cannot be answered given a context. This will help in building models such that they know what they don't know, and therefore make the models understand language at a deeper level. The tasks that can be supported by the dataset are machine reading comprehension, extractive QA, and question generation.

#### Primary Task

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Question Generation

#### Communicative Goal

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Given an input passage and an answer span, the  goal is to generate a question that asks for the answer.


### Credit

#### Curation Organization Type(s)

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`academic`

#### Curation Organization(s)

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Stanford University

#### Dataset Creators

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Pranav Rajpurkar,  Robin Jia and Percy Liang

#### Funding

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Facebook and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-114747

#### Who added the Dataset to GEM?

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(Abinaya Mahendiran)[https://github.com/AbinayaM02], Manager Data Science, NEXT Labs,


### Dataset Structure

#### Data Fields

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The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### squad_v2

- `id`: a `string` feature.
- `gem_id`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.
- `context`: a `string` feature.
- `question`: a `string` feature.
- `answers`: a dictionary feature containing:
  - `text`: a `string` feature.
  - `answer_start`: a `int32` feature.

#### Example Instance

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Here is an example of a validation data point. This example was too long and was cropped:

```
{
    "gem_id": "gem-squad_v2-validation-1",
    "id": "56ddde6b9a695914005b9629",
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [94, 87, 94, 94],
        "text": ["10th and 11th centuries", "in the 10th and 11th centuries", "10th and 11th centuries", "10th and 11th centuries"]
    },
    "context": "\"The Normans (Norman: Nourmands; French: Normands; Latin: Normanni) were the people who in the 10th and 11th centuries gave thei...",
    "question": "When were the Normans in Normandy?",
    "title": "Normans"
}
```

#### Data Splits

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The original SQuAD2.0 dataset has only training and dev (validation) splits. The train split is further divided into test split and added as part of the GEM datasets.

| name           |  train    | validation | test     |
| -------------- | --------: | -------------: | -------: |
| squad_v2   | 90403  |          11873 | 39916 |



## Dataset in GEM

### Rationale for Inclusion in GEM

#### Why is the Dataset in GEM?

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SQuAD2.0 will encourage the development of new reading comprehension models
that know what they don’t know, and therefore understand language at a deeper level. It can also help in building better models for answer-aware question generation .

#### Similar Datasets

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no

#### Unique Language Coverage

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yes

#### Ability that the Dataset measures

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Reasoning capability


### GEM-Specific Curation

#### Modificatied for GEM?

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yes

#### GEM Modifications

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`other`

#### Additional Splits?

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yes

#### Split Information

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The train(80%) and validation(10%) split of SQuAD2.0 are made available to public whereas the  test(10%) split is not available. 

As part of GEM, the train split, 80% of the original data is split into two train split (90%) and test split (remaining 10%). The idea is to provide all three splits for the users to use. 


### Getting Started with the Task




## Previous Results

### Previous Results

#### Measured Model Abilities

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Extractive QA, Question Generation

#### Metrics

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`Other: Other Metrics`, `METEOR`, `ROUGE`, `BLEU`

#### Other Metrics

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- Extractive QA  uses Exact Match and F1 Score
- Question generation users METEOR, ROUGE-L, BLEU-4

#### Previous results available?

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yes

#### Other Evaluation Approaches

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Question generation users METEOR, ROUGE-L, BLEU-4

#### Relevant Previous Results

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@article{Dong2019UnifiedLM,
  title={Unified Language Model Pre-training for Natural Language Understanding and Generation},
  author={Li Dong and Nan Yang and Wenhui Wang and Furu Wei and Xiaodong Liu and Yu Wang and Jianfeng Gao and M. Zhou and Hsiao-Wuen Hon},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2019},
  volume={abs/1905.03197}
}



## Dataset Curation

### Original Curation

#### Original Curation Rationale

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The dataset is curated in three stages: 
- Curating passages, 
- Crowdsourcing question-answers on those passages,
- Obtaining additional answers
As part of SQuAD1.1, 10000 high-quality articles from English Wikipedia is extracted using Project Nayuki’s Wikipedia’s internal PageRanks, from which 536 articles are sampled uniformly at random. From each of these articles, individual paragraphs are extracted, stripping away images, figures, tables, and discarding paragraphs shorter than 500 characters. 

SQuAD2.0 combines the 100,000 questions in SQuAD1.1 with over 50,000 unanswerable questions written adversarially by crowdworkers to look similar to answerable ones. 


#### Communicative Goal

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To build systems that not only answer questions when possible, but also determine when no
answer is supported by the paragraph and abstain from answering.

#### Sourced from Different Sources

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yes

#### Source Details

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Wikipedia


### Language Data

#### How was Language Data Obtained?

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`Found`

#### Where was it found?

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`Single website`

#### Topics Covered

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The dataset contains 536 articles covering a wide range of topics, from musical celebrities to abstract concepts.

#### Data Validation

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validated by crowdworker

#### Data Preprocessing

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From the sampled articles from Wikipedia, individual paragraphs are extracted, stripping
away images, figures, tables, and discarding paragraphs shorter than 500 characters  and partitioned into training(80%),  development set(10%) and test set(10%).

#### Was Data Filtered?

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algorithmically

#### Filter Criteria

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To retrieve high-quality articles, Project Nayuki’s Wikipedia’s internal PageRanks was used to obtain the top 10000 articles of English Wikipedia, from which 536 articles are sampled uniformly at random. 


### Structured Annotations

#### Additional Annotations?

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crowd-sourced

#### Number of Raters

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unknown

#### Rater Qualifications

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Crowdworkers from the United States or Canada with a 97% HIT acceptance rate, a minimum of 1000 HITs, were employed to create questions. 

#### Raters per Training Example

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0

#### Raters per Test Example

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0

#### Annotation Service?

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yes

#### Which Annotation Service

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`other`, `Amazon Mechanical Turk`

#### Annotation Values

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For SQuAD 1.1 ,  crowdworkers were tasked with asking and answering up to 5 questions on the
content of that paragraph. The questions had to be entered in a text field, and the answers had to be
highlighted in the paragraph.

For SQuAD2.0, each task consisted of an entire article from SQuAD 1.1. For each paragraph in the article, workers were asked to pose up to five questions that were impossible to answer
based on the paragraph alone, while referencing entities in the paragraph and ensuring that a plausible answer is present. 

#### Any Quality Control?

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validated by another rater

#### Quality Control Details

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Questions from workers who wrote 25 or fewer questions on an article is removed; this filter
helped remove noise from workers who had trouble understanding the task, and therefore quit before completing the whole article. This filter to both SQuAD2.0 and the existing answerable questions from SQuAD 1.1.


### Consent

#### Any Consent Policy?

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no


### Private Identifying Information (PII)

#### Contains PII?

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unlikely

#### Any PII Identification?

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no identification


### Maintenance

#### Any Maintenance Plan?

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no



## Broader Social Context

### Previous Work on the Social Impact of the Dataset

#### Usage of Models based on the Data

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no


### Impact on Under-Served Communities

#### Addresses needs of underserved Communities?

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no


### Discussion of Biases

#### Any Documented Social Biases?

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yes



## Considerations for Using the Data

### PII Risks and Liability



### Licenses



### Known Technical Limitations