README.md

metadata

annotations_creators:
  - crowdsourced
language:
  - en
language_creators:
  - found
license:
  - unknown
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: WebQuestions
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - question-answering
task_ids:
  - open-domain-qa
paperswithcode_id: webquestions
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: url
      dtype: string
    - name: question
      dtype: string
    - name: answers
      sequence: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 533736
      num_examples: 3778
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 289824
      num_examples: 2032
  download_size: 1272965
  dataset_size: 823560

Dataset Card for "web_questions"

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://worksheets.codalab.org/worksheets/0xba659fe363cb46e7a505c5b6a774dc8a
• Repository: More Information Needed
• Paper: Semantic Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs
• Point of Contact: More Information Needed
• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.21 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 0.79 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 2.00 MB

Dataset Summary

This dataset consists of 6,642 question/answer pairs. The questions are supposed to be answerable by Freebase, a large knowledge graph. The questions are mostly centered around a single named entity. The questions are popular ones asked on the web (at least in 2013).

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

More Information Needed

Languages

More Information Needed

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

default

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.21 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 0.79 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 2.00 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    "answers": ["Jamaican Creole English Language", "Jamaican English"],
    "question": "what does jamaican people speak?",
    "url": "http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jamaica"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

default

• url: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a list of string features.

Data Splits

name	train	test
default	3778	2032

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

More Information Needed

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

More Information Needed

Who are the source language producers?

More Information Needed

Annotations

Annotation process

More Information Needed

Who are the annotators?

More Information Needed

Personal and Sensitive Information

More Information Needed

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

More Information Needed

Discussion of Biases

More Information Needed

Other Known Limitations

More Information Needed

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

More Information Needed

Licensing Information

More Information Needed

Citation Information

@inproceedings{berant-etal-2013-semantic,
    title = "Semantic Parsing on {F}reebase from Question-Answer Pairs",
    author = "Berant, Jonathan  and
      Chou, Andrew  and
      Frostig, Roy  and
      Liang, Percy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2013",
    address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D13-1160",
    pages = "1533--1544",
}

Contributions

Thanks to @thomwolf, @mariamabarham, @lewtun for adding this dataset.