This is a version of squad derived from SQuAD v2 on which we did the following changes: def remove_long_answers(example): #MAP new_answers = {'text':[], 'answer_start':[]} answers_set = set() for text, start in zip(example['answers']['text'], example['answers']['answer_start']): if len(text.split()) > 10: continue else: if (text, start) not in answers_set: new_answers['text'].append(text) new_answers['answer_start'].append(start) answers_set.add((text, start)) example['answers'] = new_answers return example def filter_whitespace(example): #MAP example['context'] = ' '.join(example['context'].split()) example['question'] = ' '.join(example['question'].split()) example['answers']['text'] = [' '.join(answer.split()) for answer in example['answers']['text']] return example def checks(example): #FILTER if example['answers']['text'] == []: return False if len(example['question'].split()) > 35: return False if len(example['question'].split()) < 3: return False return True