---
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

[More Information Needed]

### 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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