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Question Answering
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extractive-qa
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Catalan
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annotations_creators: | |
- expert-generated | |
language_creators: | |
- found | |
languages: | |
- catalan | |
licenses: | |
- cc-by-sa-4.0 | |
multilinguality: | |
- monolingual | |
pretty_name: vilaquad | |
size_categories: | |
- unknown | |
source_datasets: [] | |
task_categories: | |
- question-answering | |
task_ids: | |
- extractive-qa | |
# ViquiQuAD, An extractive QA dataset for catalan, from the Wikipedia | |
## Dataset Description | |
- **Paper:** [Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07903) | |
- **Point of Contact:** Carlos Rodríguez-Penagos ([email protected]) and Carme Armentano-Oller ([email protected]) | |
### Dataset Summary | |
This dataset contains 3111 contexts extracted from a set of 597 high quality original (no translations) articles in the Catalan Wikipedia "Viquipèdia" (ca.wikipedia.org), and 1 to 5 questions with their answer for each fragment. | |
Viquipedia articles are used under [CC-by-sa] (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) licence. | |
This dataset can be used to fine-tune and evaluate extractive-QA and Language Models. It is part of the Catalan Language Understanding Benchmark (CLUB). | |
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards | |
Extractive-QA, Language Model | |
### Languages | |
CA - Catalan | |
## Dataset Structure | |
### Data Instances | |
<pre> | |
{ | |
"data": [ | |
{ | |
"title": "Frederick W. Mote", | |
"paragraphs": [ | |
{ | |
"context": "L'historiador Frederick W. Mote va escriure que l'ús del terme \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"classes socials\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" per a aquest sistema era enganyós i que la posició de les persones dins del sistema de quatre classes no era una indicació del seu poder social i riquesa reals, sinó que només implicava \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"graus de privilegi\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" als quals tenien dret institucionalment i legalment, de manera que la posició d'una persona dins de les classes no era una garantia de la seva posició, ja que hi havia xinesos rics i amb bona reputació social, però alhora hi havia menys mongols i semu rics que mongols i semu que vivien en la pobresa i eren maltractats.", | |
"qas": [ | |
{ | |
"answers": [ | |
{ | |
"text": "Frederick W. Mote", | |
"answer_start": 14 | |
} | |
], | |
"id": "5728848cff5b5019007da298", | |
"question": "Qui creia que el sistema de classes socials de Yuan no s’hauria d’anomenar classes socials?" | |
}, | |
... | |
] | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
... | |
] | |
} | |
</pre> | |
### Data Fields | |
Follows [Rajpurkar, Pranav et al., 2016](http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250) for squad v1 datasets. | |
### Data Splits | |
- train: 11259 examples | |
- developement: 1493 examples | |
- test: 1428 examples | |
## Dataset Creation | |
### Methodology | |
From a set of high quality, non-translation, articles in the Catalan Wikipedia (ca.wikipedia.org), 597 were randomly chosen, and from them 3111, 5-8 sentence contexts were extracted. We commissioned creation of between 1 and 5 questions for each context, following an adaptation of the guidelines from SQUAD 1.0 [Rajpurkar, Pranav et al. “SQuAD: 100, 000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text.” EMNLP (2016)], (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250). In total, 15153 pairs of a question and an extracted fragment that contains the answer were created. | |
### Curation Rationale | |
For compatibility with similar datasets in other languages, we followed as close as possible existing curation guidelines. | |
### Source Data | |
- https://ca.wikipedia.org | |
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization | |
The source data are scraped articles from the Catalan wikipedia site (https://ca.wikipedia.org). | |
#### Who are the source language producers? | |
[More Information Needed] | |
### Annotations | |
#### Annotation process | |
We commissioned the creation of 1 to 5 questions for each context, following an adaptation of the guidelines from SQUAD 1.0 (Rajpurkar, Pranav et al. “SQuAD: 100, 000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text.” EMNLP (2016)), http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250. | |
#### Who are the annotators? | |
Annotation was commissioned to an specialized company that hired a team of native language speakers. | |
### Personal and Sensitive Information | |
No personal or sensitive information included. | |
## Considerations for Using the Data | |
### Social Impact of Dataset | |
[More Information Needed] | |
### Discussion of Biases | |
[More Information Needed] | |
### Other Known Limitations | |
[More Information Needed] | |
## Additional Information | |
### Dataset Curators | |
Carlos Rodríguez-Penagos ([email protected]) and Carme Armentano-Oller ([email protected]) | |
### Licensing Information | |
This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. | |
### Citation Information | |
``` | |
@inproceedings{armengol-estape-etal-2021-multilingual, | |
title = "Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? {A} Comprehensive Assessment for {C}atalan", | |
author = "Armengol-Estap{\'e}, Jordi and | |
Carrino, Casimiro Pio and | |
Rodriguez-Penagos, Carlos and | |
de Gibert Bonet, Ona and | |
Armentano-Oller, Carme and | |
Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor and | |
Melero, Maite and | |
Villegas, Marta", | |
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021", | |
month = aug, | |
year = "2021", | |
address = "Online", | |
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", | |
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.437", | |
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.437", | |
pages = "4933--4946", | |
} | |
``` | |
[DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4562344) | |
### Funding | |
This work was funded by the [Catalan Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html) within the framework of the [Aina project](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/tic/aina-el-projecte-per-garantir-el-catala-en-lera-digital/). | |