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# Dataset Card for "squad_it"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits Sample Size](#data-splits-sample-size)
- [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](#dataset-description)

- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/crux82/squad-it](https://github.com/crux82/squad-it)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 8.37 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 56.07 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 64.44 MB

### [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)

SQuAD-it is derived from the SQuAD dataset and it is obtained through semi-automatic translation of the SQuAD dataset
into Italian. It represents a large-scale dataset for open question answering processes on factoid questions in Italian.
 The dataset contains more than 60,000 question/answer pairs derived from the original English dataset. The dataset is
 split into training and test sets to support the replicability of the benchmarking of QA systems:

### [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Languages](#languages)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)

We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.

### [Data Instances](#data-instances)

#### default

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 8.37 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 56.07 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 64.44 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "answers": "{\"answer_start\": [243, 243, 243, 243, 243], \"text\": [\"evitare di essere presi di mira dal boicottaggio\", \"evitare di essere pres...",
    "context": "\"La crisi ha avuto un forte impatto sulle relazioni internazionali e ha creato una frattura all' interno della NATO. Alcune nazi...",
    "id": "5725b5a689a1e219009abd28",
    "question": "Perchè le nazioni europee e il Giappone si sono separati dagli Stati Uniti durante la crisi?"
}
```

### [Data Fields](#data-fields)

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### default
- `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 Sample Size](#data-splits-sample-size)

| name  |train|test|
|-------|----:|---:|
|default|54159|7609|

## [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)

### [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Source Data](#source-data)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Annotations](#annotations)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)

### [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## [Additional Information](#additional-information)

### [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### [Citation Information](#citation-information)

```
@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-03840-3_29,
	author="Croce, Danilo and Zelenanska, Alexandra and Basili, Roberto",
	editor="Ghidini, Chiara and Magnini, Bernardo and Passerini, Andrea and Traverso, Paolo",
	title="Neural Learning for Question Answering in Italian",
	booktitle="AI*IA 2018 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence",
	year="2018",
	publisher="Springer International Publishing",
	address="Cham",
	pages="389--402",
	isbn="978-3-030-03840-3"
}

```


### Contributions

Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@albertvillanova](https://github.com/albertvillanova), [@mariamabarham](https://github.com/mariamabarham), [@patrickvonplaten](https://github.com/patrickvonplaten) for adding this dataset.