First version of the TopiOCQA dataset.

README.md

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+---
+annotations_creators:
+- crowdsourced
+languages:
+- en
+licenses:
+- cc-by-nc-sa-4-0
+multilinguality:
+- monolingual
+size_categories:
+- 10K<n<100k
+task_categories:
+- text-retrieval
+- text-generation
+- sequence-modeling
+task_ids:
+- open-domain-cqa
+- conversational-question-answering
+pretty_name: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching
+---
+# Dataset Card for TopiOCQA
+
+## Table of Contents
+- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
+  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
+  - [Languages](#languages)
+- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
+  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
+  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+- **Homepage:** [TopiOCQA homepage](https://mcgill-nlp.github.io/topiocqa/)
+- **Repository:** [TopiOCQA Github] (https://github.com/McGill-NLP/topiocqa)
+- **Paper:** [Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00768)
+- **Point of Contact:** [Vaibhav Adlakha](mailto:vaibhav.adlakha@mila.quebec)
+
+### Dataset Summary
+
+TopiOCQA is an information-seeking conversational dataset with challenging topic switching phenomena.
+
+### Languages
+
+The language in the dataset is English as spoken by the crowdworkers. The BCP-47 code for English is en.
+
+## Additional Information
+
+### Licensing Information
+
+TopiOCQA is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
+
+### Citation Information
+
+```
+@inproceedings{adlakha2022topiocqa,
+  title={Topi{OCQA}: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching},
+  author={Adlakha, Vaibhav and Dhuliawala, Shehzaad and Suleman, Kaheer and de Vries, Harm and Reddy, Siva},
+  journal={Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
+  year={2022},
+  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00768},
+}
+```