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It consists in a set of question-answering dialogues (follow-up question-answer pairs) based on short paragraphs of text. Each paragraph is associated a knowledge graph (from WEBNLG). The questions are associated with SPARQL queries. ### Supported tasks * Knowledge-based question-answering * SPARQL-to-Text conversion #### Knowledge based question-answering Below is an example of dialogue: - Q1: What is used as an instrument is Sludge Metal or in Post-metal? - A1: Singing, Synthesizer - Q2: And what about Sludge Metal in particular? - A2: Singing - Q3: Does the Year of No Light album Nord belong to this genre? - A3: Yes. #### SPARQL-to-Text Question Generation SPARQL-to-Text question generation refers to the task of converting a SPARQL query into a natural language question, eg: ```SQL SELECT (COUNT(?country) as ?answer) WHERE { ?country property:member_of resource:Europe . ?country property:population ?n . FILTER ( ?n > 10000000 ) } ``` could be converted into: ```txt How many European countries have more than 10 million inhabitants? ``` ## Dataset Structure ### Types of questions Comparison of question types compared to related datasets: | | | [SimpleQuestions](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/simplequestions-sparqltotext) | [ParaQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/paraqa-sparqltotext) | [LC-QuAD 2.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/lcquad_2.0-sparqltotext) | [CSQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/csqa-sparqltotext) | [WebNLQ-QA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/webnlg-qa) | |--------------------------|-----------------|:---------------:|:------:|:-----------:|:----:|:---------:| | **Number of triplets in query** | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | 2 | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | More | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | **Logical connector between triplets** | Conjunction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Disjunction | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | | Exclusion | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | **Topology of the query graph** | Direct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Sibling | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Chain | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Mixed | | | ✓ | | ✓ | | | Other | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | **Variable typing in the query** | None | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Target variable | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Internal variable | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | **Comparisons clauses** | None | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | String | | | ✓ | | ✓ | | | Number | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Date | | | ✓ | | ✓ | | **Superlative clauses** | No | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Yes | | | | ✓ | | | **Answer type** | Entity (open) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Entity (closed) | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | | Number | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Boolean | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | **Answer cardinality** | 0 (unanswerable) | | | ✓ | | ✓ | | | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | More | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | **Number of target variables** | 0 (⇒ ASK verb) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | 2 | | | ✓ | | ✓ | | **Dialogue context** | Self-sufficient | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Coreference | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | | Ellipsis | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | **Meaning** | Meaningful | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | Non-sense | | | | | ✓ | ### Data splits Text verbalization is only available for a subset of the test set, referred to as *challenge set*. Other sample only contain dialogues in the form of follow-up sparql queries. | | Train | Validation | Test | Challenge | | --------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------------ | | Questions | 27727 | 3485 | 4179 | 332 | | Dialogues | 1001 | 1264 | 1417 | 100 | | NL question per query | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | Characters per query | 129 (± 43) | 131 (± 45) | 122 (± 45) | 113 (± 38) | | Tokens per question | - | - | - | 8.4 (± 4.5) | ## Additional information ### Related datasets This corpus is part of a set of 5 datasets released for SPARQL-to-Text generation, namely: - Non conversational datasets - [SimpleQuestions](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/simplequestions-sparqltotext) (from https://github.com/askplatypus/wikidata-simplequestions) - [ParaQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/paraqa-sparqltotext) (from https://github.com/barshana-banerjee/ParaQA) - [LC-QuAD 2.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/lcquad_2.0-sparqltotext) (from http://lc-quad.sda.tech/) - Conversational datasets - [CSQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/csqa-sparqltotext) (from https://amritasaha1812.github.io/CSQA/) - [WebNLQ-QA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OrangeInnov/webnlg-qa) (derived from https://gitlab.com/shimorina/webnlg-dataset/-/tree/master/release_v3.0) ### Licencing information * Content from original dataset: CC-BY-SA 4.0 * New content: CC BY-SA 4.0 ### Citation information #### This dataset ```bibtex @inproceedings{lecorve2022sparql2text, title={SPARQL-to-Text Question Generation for Knowledge-Based Conversational Applications}, author={Lecorv\'e, Gw\'enol\'e and Veyret, Morgan and Brabant, Quentin and Rojas-Barahona, Lina M.}, journal={Proceedings of the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP)}, year={2022} } ``` #### The underlying corpus WEBNLG 3.0 ```bibtex @inproceedings{castro-ferreira-etal-2020-2020, title = "The 2020 Bilingual, Bi-Directional {W}eb{NLG}+ Shared Task: Overview and Evaluation Results ({W}eb{NLG}+ 2020)", author = "Castro Ferreira, Thiago and Gardent, Claire and Ilinykh, Nikolai and van der Lee, Chris and Mille, Simon and Moussallem, Diego and Shimorina, Anastasia", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web (WebNLG+)", year = "2020", pages = "55--76" } ```