The MilkQA Dataset

I am not the author of this dataset, this is a reproduction of the MilkQA dataset on HuggingFace, the original data can be downloaded from the link: http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/nilc/index.php/milkqa

MilkQA is a dataset of dense questions for the task of answer selection. It contains questions and answers of the dairy farming domain that were collected by the customer service of Embrapa Dairy Cattle between the years of 2003 and 2012.

The dataset currently contains 2,657 anonymized pairs of questions and answers and is organized in three partitions: training, development and tests, that contains 2,307, 50 and 300 questions, respectively. Each question is associated to a pool of 50 candidate answers where only one answer is correct.

MilkQA is composed of challenging questions that are different from those typically approached in Question Answering. In their work, they call them consumer questions. These questions usually occur in situations where people seek solutions for some problem and present very particular characteristics, such as the larger size and the lack of objectivity.

Details about MilkQA are provided in the paper referenced below. Please, if you use the dataset, consider citing their paper (available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03460).

Citation

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{criscuolo2017milkqa,
    author = {Marcelo Criscuolo and Erick Rocha Fonseca and Sandra Maria Aluísio and Ana Carolina Sperança-Criscuolo},
    title = {{MilkQA}: a Dataset of Consumer Questions for the Task of Answer Selection},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)},
    year = {2017},
    month = {October},
    date = {2-5},
    address = {Uberlândia, Brazil},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    isbn = {978-1-5386-2407-4},
    pages = {354--359},
    volume = {1},
    doi = {10.1109/BRACIS.2017.12},
}

License

MilkQA is published by the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Lisguistics NILC at University of Sao Paulo (USP) under the license Creative Commons, with the clauses Attribution, NonCommercial and NoDerivatives CC BY-NC-ND.

Dataset Contents

1. Data Directory

The queries and corpus subsets contains all the pairs of questions and answers linked by the same id.

2. Qrels

The splits {train,dev,test} correspond to the training, development and test subsets.

The column query-id, which represents a question in queries subset, is associated with its ground truth answer (positive-doc-id) and a pool of candidate answers (candidates-ids). The pool of candidates contains the ground truth answer.