---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: INSTRUCTION
    dtype: string
  - name: RESPONSE
    dtype: string
  - name: SOURCE
    dtype: string
  - name: METADATA
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  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 410246
    num_examples: 1610
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  dataset_size: 410246
license: mit
task_categories:
- question-answering
- summarization
language:
- en
tags:
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Pittsburgh
- Wikipedia
- Q&A
pretty_name: Question-Answer Dataset
size_categories:
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---
# Dataset Card for "cmu_wiki_qa"

A filtered / cleaned version of the http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/QA-data/ Q&A dataset, which provides manually-generated factoid questions from Wikipedia articles.

**Acknowledgments**
These data were collected by Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, Rebecca Hwa, Shay Cohen, Kevin Gimpel, and many students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh between 2008 and 2010.
 
Their research project was supported by NSF IIS-0713265 (to Smith), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (to Heilman), NSF IIS-0712810 and IIS-0745914 (to Hwa), and Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education R305B040063 (to Carnegie Mellon).

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