Datasets:

Sub-tasks:
extractive-qa
Multilinguality:
multilingual
Size Categories:
unknown
Language Creators:
expert-generated
Annotations Creators:
expert-generated
Source Datasets:
extended|squad
ArXiv:
Tags:
License:
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metadata
pretty_name: XQuAD
annotations_creators:
  - expert-generated
language_creators:
  - expert-generated
language:
  - ar
  - de
  - el
  - en
  - es
  - hi
  - ro
  - ru
  - th
  - tr
  - vi
  - zh
license:
  - cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
  - multilingual
size_categories:
  - unknown
source_datasets:
  - extended|squad
task_categories:
  - question-answering
task_ids:
  - extractive-qa
paperswithcode_id: xquad
dataset_info:
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      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: text
            dtype: string
          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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      - name: validation
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        num_examples: 1190
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    dataset_size: 1722799
  - config_name: xquad.de
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      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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    dataset_size: 1283301
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
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      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: text
            dtype: string
          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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      - name: validation
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    dataset_size: 1477239
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      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
        sequence:
          - name: text
            dtype: string
          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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  - config_name: xquad.es
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      - name: context
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      - name: question
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      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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  - config_name: xquad.hi
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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            dtype: string
          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: answer_start
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      - name: context
        dtype: string
      - name: question
        dtype: string
      - name: answers
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          - name: text
            dtype: string
          - name: answer_start
            dtype: int32
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      - name: id
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      - name: context
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      - name: question
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      - name: answers
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Dataset Card for "xquad"

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

XQuAD (Cross-lingual Question Answering Dataset) is a benchmark dataset for evaluating cross-lingual question answering performance. The dataset consists of a subset of 240 paragraphs and 1190 question-answer pairs from the development set of SQuAD v1.1 (Rajpurkar et al., 2016) together with their professional translations into ten languages: Spanish, German, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, and Hindi. Consequently, the dataset is entirely parallel across 11 languages.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

xquad.ar

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.30 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 1.72 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 15.03 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [527],
        "text": ["136"]
    },
    "context": "\"Die Verteidigung der Panthers gab nur 308 Punkte ab und belegte den sechsten Platz in der Liga, während sie die NFL mit 24 Inte...",
    "id": "56beb4343aeaaa14008c925c",
    "question": "Wie viele Sacks erzielte Jared Allen in seiner Karriere?"
}

xquad.de

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.30 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 1.29 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 14.59 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [527],
        "text": ["136"]
    },
    "context": "\"Die Verteidigung der Panthers gab nur 308 Punkte ab und belegte den sechsten Platz in der Liga, während sie die NFL mit 24 Inte...",
    "id": "56beb4343aeaaa14008c925c",
    "question": "Wie viele Sacks erzielte Jared Allen in seiner Karriere?"
}

xquad.el

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.30 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 2.21 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 15.51 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [527],
        "text": ["136"]
    },
    "context": "\"Die Verteidigung der Panthers gab nur 308 Punkte ab und belegte den sechsten Platz in der Liga, während sie die NFL mit 24 Inte...",
    "id": "56beb4343aeaaa14008c925c",
    "question": "Wie viele Sacks erzielte Jared Allen in seiner Karriere?"
}

xquad.en

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.30 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 1.12 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 14.42 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [527],
        "text": ["136"]
    },
    "context": "\"Die Verteidigung der Panthers gab nur 308 Punkte ab und belegte den sechsten Platz in der Liga, während sie die NFL mit 24 Inte...",
    "id": "56beb4343aeaaa14008c925c",
    "question": "Wie viele Sacks erzielte Jared Allen in seiner Karriere?"
}

xquad.es

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.30 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 1.28 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 14.58 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": {
        "answer_start": [527],
        "text": ["136"]
    },
    "context": "\"Die Verteidigung der Panthers gab nur 308 Punkte ab und belegte den sechsten Platz in der Liga, während sie die NFL mit 24 Inte...",
    "id": "56beb4343aeaaa14008c925c",
    "question": "Wie viele Sacks erzielte Jared Allen in seiner Karriere?"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

xquad.ar

  • id: a string feature.
  • context: a string feature.
  • question: a string feature.
  • answers: a dictionary feature containing:
    • text: a string feature.
    • answer_start: a int32 feature.

xquad.de

  • id: a string feature.
  • context: a string feature.
  • question: a string feature.
  • answers: a dictionary feature containing:
    • text: a string feature.
    • answer_start: a int32 feature.

xquad.el

  • id: a string feature.
  • context: a string feature.
  • question: a string feature.
  • answers: a dictionary feature containing:
    • text: a string feature.
    • answer_start: a int32 feature.

xquad.en

  • id: a string feature.
  • context: a string feature.
  • question: a string feature.
  • answers: a dictionary feature containing:
    • text: a string feature.
    • answer_start: a int32 feature.

xquad.es

  • id: a string feature.
  • context: a string feature.
  • question: a string feature.
  • answers: a dictionary feature containing:
    • text: a string feature.
    • answer_start: a int32 feature.

Data Splits

name validation
xquad.ar 1190
xquad.de 1190
xquad.el 1190
xquad.en 1190
xquad.es 1190

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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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{Artetxe:etal:2019,
      author    = {Mikel Artetxe and Sebastian Ruder and Dani Yogatama},
      title     = {On the cross-lingual transferability of monolingual representations},
      journal   = {CoRR},
      volume    = {abs/1910.11856},
      year      = {2019},
      archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      eprint    = {1910.11856}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @lewtun, @patrickvonplaten, @thomwolf for adding this dataset.