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license: mit
language:
- en
paperswithcode_id: embedding-data/WikiAnswers
pretty_name: WikiAnswers
---

# Dataset Card for "WikiAnswers"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)
  
## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://doi.org/10.1145/2623330.2623677)
- **Point of Contact:** [Anthony Fader](https://dl.acm.org/profile/81324489111), [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100527621), [Oren Etzioni](https://dl.acm.org/profile/99658633129)

### Dataset Summary
The WikiAnswers corpus contains clusters of questions tagged by WikiAnswers users as paraphrases. 
Each cluster optionally contains an answer provided by WikiAnswers users. There are 30,370,994 clusters containing an average of 25 questions per cluster. 3,386,256 (11%) of the clusters have an answer.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

### Data Fields

### Data Splits

The data can be downloaded from: [http://knowitall.cs.washington.edu/oqa/data/wikianswers/](http://knowitall.cs.washington.edu/oqa/data/wikianswers/). 
The corpus is split into 40 gzip-compressed files. The total compressed filesize is 8GB; the total decompressed filesize is 40GB. 
Each file contains one cluster per line. Each cluster is a tab-separated list of questions and answers. 
Questions are prefixed by q: and answers are prefixed by a:. Here is an example cluster (tabs replaced with newlines):

```
q:How many muslims make up indias 1 billion population?
q:How many of india's population are muslim?
q:How many populations of muslims in india?
q:What is population of muslims in india?
a:Over 160 million Muslims per Pew Forum Study as of October 2009.

```

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/afader/oqa#wikianswers-corpus)

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{Fader14,
    author    = {Anthony Fader and Luke Zettlemoyer and Oren Etzioni},
    title     = {{Open Question Answering Over Curated and Extracted
                Knowledge Bases}},
    booktitle = {KDD},
    year      = {2014}
}
```


### Contributions

Thanks to [Anthony Fader](https://dl.acm.org/profile/81324489111), [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100527621), [Oren Etzioni](https://dl.acm.org/profile/99658633129) for adding this dataset.