Datasets:
riddle_sense

	---
	annotations_creators:
	- crowdsourced
	language_creators:
	- found
	language:
	- en
	license:
	- other
	multilinguality:
	- monolingual
	pretty_name: RiddleSense
	size_categories:
	- 1K<n<10K
	source_datasets:
	- original
	task_categories:
	- question-answering
	task_ids:
	- multiple-choice-qa
	dataset_info:
	features:
	- name: answerKey
	dtype: string
	- name: question
	dtype: string
	- name: choices
	sequence:
	- name: label
	dtype: string
	- name: text
	dtype: string
	splits:
	- name: train
	num_bytes: 720715
	num_examples: 3510
	- name: validation
	num_bytes: 208276
	num_examples: 1021
	- name: test
	num_bytes: 212790
	num_examples: 1184
	download_size: 2083122
	dataset_size: 1141781
	---

	# Dataset Card for RiddleSense

	## Table of Contents
	- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
	- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
	- [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
	- [Languages](#languages)
	- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
	- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
	- [Data Fields](#data-instances)
	- [Data Splits](#data-instances)
	- [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)

	## Dataset Description

	- Homepage: https://inklab.usc.edu/RiddleSense/
	- Repository: https://github.com/INK-USC/RiddleSense/
	- Paper: https://inklab.usc.edu/RiddleSense/riddlesense_acl21_paper.pdf
	- Leaderboard: https://inklab.usc.edu/RiddleSense/#leaderboard
	- Point of Contact: [Yuchen Lin](yuchen.lin@usc.edu)

	### Dataset Summary

	Answering such a riddle-style question is a challenging cognitive process, in that it requires
	complex commonsense reasoning abilities, an understanding of figurative language, and counterfactual reasoning
	skills, which are all important abilities for advanced natural language understanding (NLU). However,
	there is currently no dedicated datasets aiming to test these abilities. Herein, we present RiddleSense,
	a new multiple-choice question answering task, which comes with the first large dataset (5.7k examples) for answering
	riddle-style commonsense questions. We systematically evaluate a wide range of models over the challenge,
	and point out that there is a large gap between the best-supervised model and human performance suggesting
	intriguing future research in the direction of higher-order commonsense reasoning and linguistic creativity towards
	building advanced NLU systems.

	### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

	[Needs More Information]

	### Languages

	English

	## Dataset Structure

	### Data Instances

	An example of 'train' looks as follows.
	```
	{
	"answerKey": "E",
	"choices": {
	"label": ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"],
	"text": ["throw", "bit", "gallow", "mouse", "hole"]
	},
	"question": "A man is incarcerated in prison, and as his punishment he has to carry a one tonne bag of sand backwards and forwards across a field the size of a football pitch. What is the one thing he can put in it to make it lighter?"
	}
	```

	### Data Fields

	Data Fields
	The data fields are the same among all splits.

	default
	- `answerKey`: a string feature.
	- `question`: a string feature.
	- `choices`: a dictionary feature containing:
	- `label`: a string feature.
	- `text`: a string feature.

	### Data Splits

	\|name\| train\| validation\| test\|
	\|---\|---\|---\|---\|
	\|default\| 3510\| 1021\| 1184\|

	## 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

	Dataset provided for research purposes only. Please check dataset license for additional information.

	## Additional Information

	### Dataset Curators

	[Needs More Information]

	### Licensing Information

	The copyright of RiddleSense dataset is consistent with the terms of use of the fan websites and the intellectual property and privacy rights of the original sources. All of our riddles and answers are from fan websites that can be accessed freely. The website owners state that you may print and download material from the sites solely for non-commercial use provided that we agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the materials. The dataset users must agree that they will only use the dataset for research purposes before they can access the both the riddles and our annotations. We do not vouch for the potential bias or fairness issue that might exist within the riddles. You do not have the right to redistribute them. Again, you must not use this dataset for any commercial purposes.

	### Citation Information

	```
	@InProceedings{lin-etal-2021-riddlesense,
	title={RiddleSense: Reasoning about Riddle Questions Featuring Linguistic Creativity and Commonsense Knowledge},
	author={Lin, Bill Yuchen and Wu, Ziyi and Yang, Yichi and Lee, Dong-Ho and Ren, Xiang},
	journal={Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP 2021): Findings},
	year={2021}
	}
	```

	### Contributions

	Thanks to [@ziyiwu9494](https://github.com/ziyiwu9494) for adding this dataset.