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pretty_name: Scientific Figures, Captions and Context
task_categories:
  - visual-question-answering
  - document-question-answering

Dataset Card for Scientific Figures, Captions, and Context

All figures were taken from arXiv research papers.

Contributors

Yousef Gomaa (@yousefg-codes) and Mohamed Awadalla (@mawadalla)

Dataset Description

Paper:

Dataset Summary

This dataset includes ~690,000 figures from ~150,000 scientific papers taken from arXiv papers. Each json file is a single research paper with a list of figures each with their caption and surrounding context.

Category	Count
Figure	690883
Paper	152504

Languages

The data is in english.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

An example of a .json file:

{
  [
    {
      'image_filename': 'dataset/figures/example.png' (or .eps or .pdf),
      'label': 'fig_example',
      'caption': 'an example caption for this figure',
      'context': ['example context where this figure was referenced', 'up to 600 characters']
    },
  ...
  ]
}

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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Citation Information

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