--- annotations_creators: [] language_creators: [] language: - en license: - cc-by-sa-4.0 multilinguality: - monolingual paperswithcode_id: beir pretty_name: BEIR Benchmark size_categories: msmarco: - 1M``dev``
``test``| 6,980 | 8.84M | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/msmarco.zip) | ``444067daf65d982533ea17ebd59501e4`` | | TREC-COVID | [Homepage](https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/index.html)| ``trec-covid``| ``test``| 50| 171K| 493.5 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/trec-covid.zip) | ``ce62140cb23feb9becf6270d0d1fe6d1`` | | NFCorpus | [Homepage](https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/nfcorpus/) | ``nfcorpus`` | ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 323 | 3.6K | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nfcorpus.zip) | ``a89dba18a62ef92f7d323ec890a0d38d`` | | BioASQ | [Homepage](http://bioasq.org) | ``bioasq``| ``train``
``test`` | 500 | 14.91M | 8.05 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#2-bioasq) | | NQ | [Homepage](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions) | ``nq``| ``train``
``test``| 3,452 | 2.68M | 1.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nq.zip) | ``d4d3d2e48787a744b6f6e691ff534307`` | | HotpotQA | [Homepage](https://hotpotqa.github.io) | ``hotpotqa``| ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 7,405 | 5.23M | 2.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/hotpotqa.zip) | ``f412724f78b0d91183a0e86805e16114`` | | FiQA-2018 | [Homepage](https://sites.google.com/view/fiqa/) | ``fiqa`` | ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 648 | 57K | 2.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fiqa.zip) | ``17918ed23cd04fb15047f73e6c3bd9d9`` | | Signal-1M(RT) | [Homepage](https://research.signal-ai.com/datasets/signal1m-tweetir.html)| ``signal1m`` | ``test``| 97 | 2.86M | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#4-signal-1m) | | TREC-NEWS | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/news2019.html) | ``trec-news`` | ``test``| 57 | 595K | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#1-trec-news) | | ArguAna | [Homepage](http://argumentation.bplaced.net/arguana/data) | ``arguana``| ``test`` | 1,406 | 8.67K | 1.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/arguana.zip) | ``8ad3e3c2a5867cdced806d6503f29b99`` | | Touche-2020| [Homepage](https://webis.de/events/touche-20/shared-task-1.html) | ``webis-touche2020``| ``test``| 49 | 382K | 19.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/webis-touche2020.zip) | ``46f650ba5a527fc69e0a6521c5a23563`` | | CQADupstack| [Homepage](http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/resources/cqadupstack/) | ``cqadupstack``| ``test``| 13,145 | 457K | 1.4 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/cqadupstack.zip) | ``4e41456d7df8ee7760a7f866133bda78`` | | Quora| [Homepage](https://www.quora.com/q/quoradata/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs) | ``quora``| ``dev``
``test``| 10,000 | 523K | 1.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/quora.zip) | ``18fb154900ba42a600f84b839c173167`` | | DBPedia | [Homepage](https://github.com/iai-group/DBpedia-Entity/) | ``dbpedia-entity``| ``dev``
``test``| 400 | 4.63M | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/dbpedia-entity.zip) | ``c2a39eb420a3164af735795df012ac2c`` | | SCIDOCS| [Homepage](https://allenai.org/data/scidocs) | ``scidocs``| ``test``| 1,000 | 25K | 4.9 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scidocs.zip) | ``38121350fc3a4d2f48850f6aff52e4a9`` | | FEVER | [Homepage](http://fever.ai) | ``fever``| ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 6,666 | 5.42M | 1.2| [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fever.zip) | ``5a818580227bfb4b35bb6fa46d9b6c03`` | | Climate-FEVER| [Homepage](http://climatefever.ai) | ``climate-fever``|``test``| 1,535 | 5.42M | 3.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/climate-fever.zip) | ``8b66f0a9126c521bae2bde127b4dc99d`` | | SciFact| [Homepage](https://github.com/allenai/scifact) | ``scifact``| ``train``
``test``| 300 | 5K | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scifact.zip) | ``5f7d1de60b170fc8027bb7898e2efca1`` | | Robust04 | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html) | ``robust04``| ``test``| 249 | 528K | 69.9 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#3-robust04) | ## Dataset Creation ### Curation Rationale [Needs More Information] ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization [Needs More Information] #### Who are the source language producers? [Needs More Information] ### Annotations #### Annotation process [Needs More Information] #### Who are the annotators? [Needs More Information] ### Personal and Sensitive Information [Needs More Information] ## Considerations for Using the Data ### Social Impact of Dataset [Needs More Information] ### Discussion of Biases [Needs More Information] ### Other Known Limitations [Needs More Information] ## Additional Information ### Dataset Curators [Needs More Information] ### Licensing Information [Needs More Information] ### Citation Information Cite as: ``` @inproceedings{ thakur2021beir, title={{BEIR}: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models}, author={Nandan Thakur and Nils Reimers and Andreas R{\"u}ckl{\'e} and Abhishek Srivastava and Iryna Gurevych}, booktitle={Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)}, year={2021}, url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=wCu6T5xFjeJ} } ``` ### Contributions Thanks to [@Nthakur20](https://github.com/Nthakur20) for adding this dataset.Top-20 generated queries for every passage in NFCorpus # Dataset Card for BEIR Benchmark ## 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/UKPLab/beir - **Repository:** https://github.com/UKPLab/beir - **Paper:** https://openreview.net/forum?id=wCu6T5xFjeJ - **Leaderboard:** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L8aACyPaXrL8iEelJLGqlMqXKPX2oSP_R10pZoy77Ns - **Point of Contact:** nandan.thakur@uwaterloo.ca ### Dataset Summary BEIR is a heterogeneous benchmark that has been built from 18 diverse datasets representing 9 information retrieval tasks: - Fact-checking: [FEVER](http://fever.ai), [Climate-FEVER](http://climatefever.ai), [SciFact](https://github.com/allenai/scifact) - Question-Answering: [NQ](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions), [HotpotQA](https://hotpotqa.github.io), [FiQA-2018](https://sites.google.com/view/fiqa/) - Bio-Medical IR: [TREC-COVID](https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/index.html), [BioASQ](http://bioasq.org), [NFCorpus](https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/nfcorpus/) - News Retrieval: [TREC-NEWS](https://trec.nist.gov/data/news2019.html), [Robust04](https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html) - Argument Retrieval: [Touche-2020](https://webis.de/events/touche-20/shared-task-1.html), [ArguAna](tp://argumentation.bplaced.net/arguana/data) - Duplicate Question Retrieval: [Quora](https://www.quora.com/q/quoradata/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs), [CqaDupstack](http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/resources/cqadupstack/) - Citation-Prediction: [SCIDOCS](https://allenai.org/data/scidocs) - Tweet Retrieval: [Signal-1M](https://research.signal-ai.com/datasets/signal1m-tweetir.html) - Entity Retrieval: [DBPedia](https://github.com/iai-group/DBpedia-Entity/) All these datasets have been preprocessed and can be used for your experiments. ```python ``` ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards The dataset supports a leaderboard that evaluates models against task-specific metrics such as F1 or EM, as well as their ability to retrieve supporting information from Wikipedia. The current best performing models can be found [here](https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/689/leaderboard/). ### Languages All tasks are in English (`en`). ## Dataset Structure All BEIR datasets must contain a corpus, queries and qrels (relevance judgments file). They must be in the following format: - `corpus` file: a `.jsonl` file (jsonlines) that contains a list of dictionaries, each with three fields `_id` with unique document identifier, `title` with document title (optional) and `text` with document paragraph or passage. For example: `{"_id": "doc1", "title": "Albert Einstein", "text": "Albert Einstein was a German-born...."}` - `queries` file: a `.jsonl` file (jsonlines) that contains a list of dictionaries, each with two fields `_id` with unique query identifier and `text` with query text. For example: `{"_id": "q1", "text": "Who developed the mass-energy equivalence formula?"}` - `qrels` file: a `.tsv` file (tab-seperated) that contains three columns, i.e. the `query-id`, `corpus-id` and `score` in this order. Keep 1st row as header. For example: `q1 doc1 1` ### Data Instances A high level example of any beir dataset: ```python corpus = { "doc1" : { "title": "Albert Einstein", "text": "Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. who developed the theory of relativity, \ one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for \ its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy \ equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed 'the world's most famous equation'. He received the 1921 \ Nobel Prize in Physics 'for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law \ of the photoelectric effect', a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory." }, "doc2" : { "title": "", # Keep title an empty string if not present "text": "Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of \ malted barley. The two main varieties are German Weißbier and Belgian witbier; other types include Lambic (made\ with wild yeast), Berliner Weisse (a cloudy, sour beer), and Gose (a sour, salty beer)." }, } queries = { "q1" : "Who developed the mass-energy equivalence formula?", "q2" : "Which beer is brewed with a large proportion of wheat?" } qrels = { "q1" : {"doc1": 1}, "q2" : {"doc2": 1}, } ``` ### Data Fields Examples from all configurations have the following features: ### Corpus - `corpus`: a `dict` feature representing the document title and passage text, made up of: - `_id`: a `string` feature representing the unique document id - `title`: a `string` feature, denoting the title of the document. - `text`: a `string` feature, denoting the text of the document. ### Queries - `queries`: a `dict` feature representing the query, made up of: - `_id`: a `string` feature representing the unique query id - `text`: a `string` feature, denoting the text of the query. ### Qrels - `qrels`: a `dict` feature representing the query document relevance judgements, made up of: - `_id`: a `string` feature representing the query id - `_id`: a `string` feature, denoting the document id. - `score`: a `int32` feature, denoting the relevance judgement between query and document. ### Data Splits | Dataset | Website| BEIR-Name | Type | Queries | Corpus | Rel D/Q | Down-load | md5 | | -------- | -----| ---------| --------- | ----------- | ---------| ---------| :----------: | :------:| | MSMARCO | [Homepage](https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/)| ``msmarco`` | ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 6,980 | 8.84M | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/msmarco.zip) | ``444067daf65d982533ea17ebd59501e4`` | | TREC-COVID | [Homepage](https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/index.html)| ``trec-covid``| ``test``| 50| 171K| 493.5 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/trec-covid.zip) | ``ce62140cb23feb9becf6270d0d1fe6d1`` | | NFCorpus | [Homepage](https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/nfcorpus/) | ``nfcorpus`` | ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 323 | 3.6K | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nfcorpus.zip) | ``a89dba18a62ef92f7d323ec890a0d38d`` | | BioASQ | [Homepage](http://bioasq.org) | ``bioasq``| ``train``
``test`` | 500 | 14.91M | 8.05 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#2-bioasq) | | NQ | [Homepage](https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions) | ``nq``| ``train``
``test``| 3,452 | 2.68M | 1.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/nq.zip) | ``d4d3d2e48787a744b6f6e691ff534307`` | | HotpotQA | [Homepage](https://hotpotqa.github.io) | ``hotpotqa``| ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 7,405 | 5.23M | 2.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/hotpotqa.zip) | ``f412724f78b0d91183a0e86805e16114`` | | FiQA-2018 | [Homepage](https://sites.google.com/view/fiqa/) | ``fiqa`` | ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 648 | 57K | 2.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fiqa.zip) | ``17918ed23cd04fb15047f73e6c3bd9d9`` | | Signal-1M(RT) | [Homepage](https://research.signal-ai.com/datasets/signal1m-tweetir.html)| ``signal1m`` | ``test``| 97 | 2.86M | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#4-signal-1m) | | TREC-NEWS | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/news2019.html) | ``trec-news`` | ``test``| 57 | 595K | 19.6 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#1-trec-news) | | ArguAna | [Homepage](http://argumentation.bplaced.net/arguana/data) | ``arguana``| ``test`` | 1,406 | 8.67K | 1.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/arguana.zip) | ``8ad3e3c2a5867cdced806d6503f29b99`` | | Touche-2020| [Homepage](https://webis.de/events/touche-20/shared-task-1.html) | ``webis-touche2020``| ``test``| 49 | 382K | 19.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/webis-touche2020.zip) | ``46f650ba5a527fc69e0a6521c5a23563`` | | CQADupstack| [Homepage](http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/resources/cqadupstack/) | ``cqadupstack``| ``test``| 13,145 | 457K | 1.4 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/cqadupstack.zip) | ``4e41456d7df8ee7760a7f866133bda78`` | | Quora| [Homepage](https://www.quora.com/q/quoradata/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs) | ``quora``| ``dev``
``test``| 10,000 | 523K | 1.6 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/quora.zip) | ``18fb154900ba42a600f84b839c173167`` | | DBPedia | [Homepage](https://github.com/iai-group/DBpedia-Entity/) | ``dbpedia-entity``| ``dev``
``test``| 400 | 4.63M | 38.2 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/dbpedia-entity.zip) | ``c2a39eb420a3164af735795df012ac2c`` | | SCIDOCS| [Homepage](https://allenai.org/data/scidocs) | ``scidocs``| ``test``| 1,000 | 25K | 4.9 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scidocs.zip) | ``38121350fc3a4d2f48850f6aff52e4a9`` | | FEVER | [Homepage](http://fever.ai) | ``fever``| ``train``
``dev``
``test``| 6,666 | 5.42M | 1.2| [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/fever.zip) | ``5a818580227bfb4b35bb6fa46d9b6c03`` | | Climate-FEVER| [Homepage](http://climatefever.ai) | ``climate-fever``|``test``| 1,535 | 5.42M | 3.0 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/climate-fever.zip) | ``8b66f0a9126c521bae2bde127b4dc99d`` | | SciFact| [Homepage](https://github.com/allenai/scifact) | ``scifact``| ``train``
``test``| 300 | 5K | 1.1 | [Link](https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/thakur/BEIR/datasets/scifact.zip) | ``5f7d1de60b170fc8027bb7898e2efca1`` | | Robust04 | [Homepage](https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html) | ``robust04``| ``test``| 249 | 528K | 69.9 | No | [How to Reproduce?](https://github.com/UKPLab/beir/blob/main/examples/dataset#3-robust04) | ## Dataset Creation ### Curation Rationale [Needs More Information] ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization [Needs More Information] #### Who are the source language producers? [Needs More Information] ### Annotations #### Annotation process [Needs More Information] #### Who are the annotators? [Needs More Information] ### Personal and Sensitive Information [Needs More Information] ## Considerations for Using the Data ### Social Impact of Dataset [Needs More Information] ### Discussion of Biases [Needs More Information] ### Other Known Limitations [Needs More Information] ## Additional Information ### Dataset Curators [Needs More Information] ### Licensing Information [Needs More Information] ### Citation Information Cite as: ``` @inproceedings{ thakur2021beir, title={{BEIR}: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models}, author={Nandan Thakur and Nils Reimers and Andreas R{\"u}ckl{\'e} and Abhishek Srivastava and Iryna Gurevych}, booktitle={Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)}, year={2021}, url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=wCu6T5xFjeJ} } ``` ### Contributions Thanks to [@Nthakur20](https://github.com/Nthakur20) for adding this dataset.