---
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
languages:
- en
licenses:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: CommonsenseQA
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- question-answering
task_ids:
- open-domain-qa
paperswithcode_id: commonsenseqa
---

# Dataset Card for "commonsense_qa"

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

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://www.tau-nlp.org/commonsenseqa
- **Repository:** https://github.com/jonathanherzig/commonsenseqa
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00937
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 4.46 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 2.08 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 6.54 MB

### Dataset Summary

CommonsenseQA is a new multiple-choice question answering dataset that requires different types of commonsense knowledge
to predict the correct answers . It contains 12,102 questions with one correct answer and four distractor answers.
The dataset is provided in two major training/validation/testing set splits: "Random split" which is the main evaluation
split, and "Question token split", see paper for details.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

The dataset is in English (`en`).

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### default

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 4.46 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 2.08 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 6.54 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows:
```
{'id': '075e483d21c29a511267ef62bedc0461',
 'question': 'The sanctions against the school were a punishing blow, and they seemed to what the efforts the school had made to change?',
 'question_concept': 'punishing',
 'choices': {'label': ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E'],
  'text': ['ignore', 'enforce', 'authoritarian', 'yell at', 'avoid']},
 'answerKey': 'A'}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### default
- `id` (`str`): Unique ID.
- `question`: a `string` feature.
- `question_concept` (`str`): ConceptNet concept associated to the question.
- `choices`: a dictionary feature containing:
  - `label`: a `string` feature.
  - `text`: a `string` feature.
- `answerKey`: a `string` feature.

### Data Splits

| name    | train | validation | test |
|---------|------:|-----------:|-----:|
| default |  9741 |       1221 | 1140 |

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

Unknown.

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{talmor-etal-2019-commonsenseqa,
    title = "{C}ommonsense{QA}: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge",
    author = "Talmor, Alon  and
      Herzig, Jonathan  and
      Lourie, Nicholas  and
      Berant, Jonathan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/N19-1421",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/N19-1421",
    pages = "4149--4158",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    eprint        = "1811.00937",
    primaryClass  = "cs",
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@albertvillanova](https://github.com/albertvillanova), [@patrickvonplaten](https://github.com/patrickvonplaten) for adding this dataset.