---
pretty_name: FaQuAD
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- pt
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- extended|wikipedia
task_categories:
- question-answering
task_ids:
- extractive-qa
# paperswithcode_id: faquad
train-eval-index:
- config: plain_text
  task: question-answering
  task_id: extractive_question_answering
  splits:
    train_split: train
    eval_split: validation
  col_mapping:
    question: question
    context: context
    answers:
      text: text
      answer_start: answer_start
  metrics:
    - type: squad
      name: SQuAD
---

# Dataset Card for FaQuAD

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/liafacom/faquad
- **Repository:** https://github.com/liafacom/faquad
- **Paper:** https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8923668/
<!-- - **Leaderboard:** -->
- **Point of Contact:** Eraldo R. Fernandes <eraldoluis@gmail.com>

### Dataset Summary

Academic secretaries and faculty members of higher education institutions face a common problem: 
  the abundance of questions sent by academics 
  whose answers are found in available institutional documents. 
The official documents produced by Brazilian public universities are vast and disperse, 
  which discourage students to further search for answers in such sources.
In order to lessen this problem, we present FaQuAD: 
  a novel machine reading comprehension dataset 
  in the domain of Brazilian higher education institutions. 
FaQuAD follows the format of SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) [Rajpurkar et al. 2016]. 
It comprises 900 questions about 249 reading passages (paragraphs), 
  which were taken from 18 official documents of a computer science college 
  from a Brazilian federal university 
  and 21 Wikipedia articles related to Brazilian higher education system. 
As far as we know, this is the first Portuguese reading comprehension dataset in this format. 

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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### Languages

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## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

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### Data Fields

|  name   |train|validation|
|---------|----:|----:|
|faquad|837|63|

### Data Splits

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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### Discussion of Biases

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### Other Known Limitations

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## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

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### Licensing Information

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### Citation Information

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### Contributions

Thanks to [@github-username](https://github.com/<github-username>) for adding this dataset.