Dataset Card for "mlqa"

Dataset Summary

MLQA (MultiLingual Question Answering) is a benchmark dataset for evaluating cross-lingual question answering performance.
MLQA consists of over 5K extractive QA instances (12K in English) in SQuAD format in seven languages - English, Arabic,
German, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese. MLQA is highly parallel, with QA instances parallel between
4 different languages on average.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

MLQA contains QA instances in 7 languages, English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

mlqa-translate-test.ar

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 10.08 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 5.48 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 15.56 MB

An example of 'test' looks as follows.

mlqa-translate-test.de

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 10.08 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 3.88 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 13.96 MB

An example of 'test' looks as follows.

mlqa-translate-test.es

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 10.08 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 3.92 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 13.99 MB

An example of 'test' looks as follows.

mlqa-translate-test.hi

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 10.08 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 4.61 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 14.68 MB

An example of 'test' looks as follows.

mlqa-translate-test.vi

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 10.08 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 6.00 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 16.07 MB

An example of 'test' looks as follows.

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

mlqa-translate-test.ar

• context: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a dictionary feature containing:
  • answer_start: a int32 feature.
  • text: a string feature.
• id: a string feature.

mlqa-translate-test.de

• context: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a dictionary feature containing:
  • answer_start: a int32 feature.
  • text: a string feature.
• id: a string feature.

mlqa-translate-test.es

• context: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a dictionary feature containing:
  • answer_start: a int32 feature.
  • text: a string feature.
• id: a string feature.

mlqa-translate-test.hi

• context: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a dictionary feature containing:
  • answer_start: a int32 feature.
  • text: a string feature.
• id: a string feature.

mlqa-translate-test.vi

• context: a string feature.
• question: a string feature.
• answers: a dictionary feature containing:
  • answer_start: a int32 feature.
  • text: a string feature.
• id: a string feature.

Data Splits

name	test
mlqa-translate-test.ar	5335
mlqa-translate-test.de	4517
mlqa-translate-test.es	5253
mlqa-translate-test.hi	4918
mlqa-translate-test.vi	5495

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@article{lewis2019mlqa,
  title = {MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering},
  author = {Lewis, Patrick and Oguz, Barlas and Rinott, Ruty and Riedel, Sebastian and Schwenk, Holger},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07475},
  year = 2019,
  eid = {arXiv: 1910.07475}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @patrickvonplaten, @M-Salti, @lewtun, @thomwolf, @mariamabarham, @lhoestq for adding this dataset.