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---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- other
languages:
- cs
- da
- de
- en
- es
- fi
- fr
- he
- hr
- hu
- id
- it
- nl
- 'no'
- pl
- pt
- ro
- ru
- sv
- tr
- vi
licenses:
- cc0-1.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: MFAQ - a Multilingual FAQ Dataset
size_categories:
- unknown
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- question-answering
task_ids:
- multiple-choice-qa
---
# MFAQ
MFAQ is a multilingual corpus of *Frequently Asked Questions* parsed from the [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org/).
```
load_dataset("clips/mfaq")
```

## Languages
We collected around 6M pairs of questions and answers in 21 different languages. To download a language specific subset you need to specify the language key as configuration. See below for an example.
```
load_dataset("clips/mfaq", "en")
```

| Language   | Key | Pairs     | Pages     |
|------------|-----|-----------|-----------|
| All        | all | 6,346,693 | 1,035,649 |
| English    | en  | 3,719,484 | 608,796   |
| German     | de  | 829,098   | 111,618   |
| Spanish    | es  | 482,818   | 75,489    |
| French     | fr  | 351,458   | 56,317    |
| Italian    | it  | 155,296   | 24,562    |
| Dutch      | nl  | 150,819   | 32,574    |
| Portuguese | pt  | 138,778   | 26,169    |
| Turkish    | tr  | 102,373   | 19,002    |
| Russian    | ru  | 91,771    | 22,643    |
| Polish     | pl  | 65,182    | 10,695    |
| Indonesian | id  | 45,839    | 7,910     |
| Norwegian  | no  | 37,711    | 5,143     |
| Swedish    | sv  | 37,003    | 5,270     |
| Danish     | da  | 32,655    | 5,279     |
| Vietnamese | vi  | 27,157    | 5,261     |
| Finnish    | fi  | 20,485    | 2,795     |
| Romanian   | ro  | 17,066    | 3,554     |
| Czech      | cs  | 16,675    | 2,568     |
| Hebrew     | he  | 11,212    | 1,921     |
| Hungarian  | hu  | 8,598     | 1,264     |
| Croatian   | hr  | 5,215     | 819       |

## Data Fields
#### Nested (per page - default)
The data is organized by page. Each page contains a list of questions and answers.
- **id** 
- **language**
- **num_pairs**: the number of FAQs on the page
- **domain**: source web domain of the FAQs
- **qa_pairs**: a list of questions and answers
  - **question**
  - **answer**
  - **language**
  
#### Flattened
The data is organized by pair (i.e. pages are flattened). You can access the flat version of any language by appending `_flat` to the configuration (e.g. `en_flat`). The data will be returned pair-by-pair instead of page-by-page. 
- **id** 
- **language**
- **num_pairs**: the number of FAQs on the page
- **domain**: source web domain of the FAQs
- **question**
- **answer**

## Source Data

This section was adapted from the source data description of [OSCAR](https://huggingface.co/datasets/oscar#source-data)

Common Crawl is a non-profit foundation which produces and maintains an open repository of web crawled data that is both accessible and analysable. Common Crawl's complete web archive consists of petabytes of data collected over 8 years of web crawling. The repository contains raw web page HTML data (WARC files), metdata extracts (WAT files) and plain text extracts (WET files). The organisation's crawlers has always respected nofollow and robots.txt policies.

To construct MFAQ, the WARC files of Common Crawl were used. We looked for `FAQPage` markup in the HTML and subsequently parsed the `FAQItem` from the page. 

## Citation information
```
@InProceedings{mfaq_a_multilingual_dataset,
    title={MFAQ: a Multilingual FAQ Dataset},
    author={Maxime {De Bruyn} and Ehsan Lotfi and Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans},
    year={2021}
}
```