web_questions

  • Description:

This dataset consists of 6,642 question/answer pairs. The questions are supposed to be answerable by Freebase, a large knowledge graph. The questions are mostly centered around a single named entity. The questions are popular ones asked on the web (at least in 2013).

Split Examples
'test' 2,032
'train' 3,778
  • Feature structure:
FeaturesDict({
    'answers': Sequence(Text(shape=(), dtype=string)),
    'question': Text(shape=(), dtype=string),
    'url': Text(shape=(), dtype=string),
})
  • Feature documentation:
Feature Class Shape Dtype Description
FeaturesDict
answers Sequence(Text) (None,) string
question Text string
url Text string
  • Citation:
@inproceedings{berant-etal-2013-semantic,
    title = "Semantic Parsing on {F}reebase from Question-Answer Pairs",
    author = "Berant, Jonathan  and
      Chou, Andrew  and
      Frostig, Roy  and
      Liang, Percy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2013",
    address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D13-1160",
    pages = "1533--1544",
}