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Dataset Card for "qasc"

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits Sample Size
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://allenai.org/data/qasc
• Repository: More Information Needed
• Paper: More Information Needed
• Point of Contact: More Information Needed
• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.54 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 5.60 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 7.14 MB

Dataset Summary

QASC is a question-answering dataset with a focus on sentence composition. It consists of 9,980 8-way multiple-choice questions about grade school science (8,134 train, 926 dev, 920 test), and comes with a corpus of 17M sentences.

Supported Tasks

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.

Data Instances

default

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.54 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 5.60 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 7.14 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

{
    "answerKey": "F",
    "choices": {
        "label": ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H"],
        "text": ["sand", "occurs over a wide range", "forests", "Global warming", "rapid changes occur", "local weather conditions", "measure of motion", "city life"]
    },
    "combinedfact": "Climate is generally described in terms of local weather conditions",
    "fact1": "Climate is generally described in terms of temperature and moisture.",
    "fact2": "Fire behavior is driven by local weather conditions such as winds, temperature and moisture.",
    "formatted_question": "Climate is generally described in terms of what? (A) sand (B) occurs over a wide range (C) forests (D) Global warming (E) rapid changes occur (F) local weather conditions (G) measure of motion (H) city life",
    "id": "3NGI5ARFTT4HNGVWXAMLNBMFA0U1PG",
    "question": "Climate is generally described in terms of what?"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

default

• id: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• choices: a dictionary feature containing:
  • text: a string feature.
  • label: a string feature.
• answerKey: a string feature.
• fact1: a string feature.
• fact2: a string feature.
• combinedfact: a string feature.
• formatted_question: a string feature.

Data Splits Sample Size

name	train	validation	test
default	8134	926	920

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

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Annotations

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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

@article{allenai:qasc,
      author    = {Tushar Khot and Peter Clark and Michal Guerquin and Peter Jansen and Ashish Sabharwal},
      title     = {QASC: A Dataset for Question Answering via Sentence Composition},
      journal   = {arXiv:1910.11473v2},
      year      = {2020},
}