license: mit
task_categories:
- question-answering
language:
- en
pretty_name: Alexa Question Answering dataset
tags:
- alexa
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
Alexa Answers from alexaanswers.amazon.com
The Alexa Answers community helps to improve Alexa’s knowledge and answer questions asked by Alexa users. Which contains some very quirky and hard question like
Q: what percent of the population has blackhair
A: The most common hair color in the world is black and its found in wide array of background and ethnicities. About 75 to 85% of the global population has either black hair or the deepest brown shade.
Q: what was the world population during world war two
A: 2.3 billion
However, with unusual questions there are unsual answers.
Q: what is nascar poem
A: Roses are red; Violets are blue; For Blaney's new ride; Switch the 1 and the 2.
there's no official nascar poem
Dataset stats
Total dataset size are 136039 and splitted into train-test-validation via 7-2-1 ratio. The split are same as alexa-qa-with-rank, so no train question in alexa-qa can be found in validation and test splits in alex-qa-with-rank.
Train : 95,227
Test : 27,208
Validation : 13,604
Do note that similar repharses of question does exist between splits and I will leave the study to others.
Last update
19/02/2023