|
--- |
|
language: |
|
- en |
|
pretty_name: Bar Exam QA |
|
license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
|
--- |
|
`Bar Exam QA` is a dataset for legal information retrieval and question answering. See the [original releasing paper](https://reglab.github.io/legal-rag-benchmarks/) for more information. |
|
|
|
This repo contains the public MBE subset of questions (historical exams), which we release with gold passage annotations. In our work, we also evaluate on a private test set of questions from a BarBri multistate bar exam test preparation textbook. |
|
|
|
The dataset was created by linking multistate bar exam multiple-choice questions with supporting gold passages from primary sources (caselaw) and secondary sources (online resources, textbooks, etc.). |
|
The gold passages were annotated by a law student, simulating a legal research workflow. |
|
|
|
## qa |
|
The dataset can be loaded with the `qa` configuration. Each example consists of a question, multiple-choice answers, an answer label, and a gold passage (passage ID) label. |
|
The dataset contains 1,195 examples. |
|
```python |
|
dataset = load_dataset("reglab/barexam_qa", name="qa") |
|
``` |
|
where |
|
- `idx`: unique example ID (string) |
|
- `prompt`: the question prompt (context before the question, can be shared between questions) |
|
- `question`: the question |
|
- `choice_a`: answer choice A text |
|
- `choice_b`: answer choice B text |
|
- `choice_c`: answer choice C text |
|
- `choice_d`: answer choice D text |
|
- `answer`: A, B, C, or D |
|
- `gold_passge`: gold passage text |
|
- `gold_idx`: passage ID of gold passage (matches with passage ID in `passages`) |
|
|
|
## passages |
|
The passage pool can be loaded with `passages` configuration. Each passages consists of a passage ID, the passage text, and additional metadata if applicable (e.g, case ID for passages from Caselaw Access Project). |
|
The passage pool contains ~900K passages. |
|
```python |
|
dataset = load_dataset("reglab/barexam_qa", name="passages") |
|
``` |
|
where |
|
- `idx`: unique passage ID (string) |
|
- `faiss_id`: unique Faiss ID (integer) |
|
- `case_id`: case ID (from Caselaw Access Project) |
|
- `opinion_id`: opinion ID (from Caselaw Access Project) |
|
- `absolute_paragraph_id`: paragraph ID in case across all opinions (from Caselaw Access Project) |
|
- `relative_paragraph_id`: paragraph ID in opinion (from Caselaw Access Project) |
|
- `text`: passage text |
