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ChroniclingAmericaQA: A Large-scale Question Answering Dataset based on Historical American Newspaper Pages
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ChroniclingAmericaQA: A Large-scale Question Answering Dataset based on Historical American Newspaper Pages
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README.md
ChroniclingAmericaQA: A Large-scale Question Answering Dataset based on Historical American Newspaper Pages
ChroniclingAmetricaQA, is a large-scale question-answering dataset comprising question-answer pairs over a collection of historical American newspapers to facilitate the development of QA and MRC systems over historical texts.

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Dataset
Structured as JSON files, the ChricinclingAmericaQA dataset includes train.json, dev.json, and test.json for training, validation, and testing phases, respectively.
- Data Structure: ```json [ { "queryid": "", "question": "", "answer": "", "organswer": "", "paraid": "", "context": "", "rawocr": "", "publicationdate": "", "transque": "", "trans_ans": "", "url": "" } ]
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Dataset Statistics
| | Training | Development | Test | | ----------------- | --------- | ----------- | ------ | | Num. of Questions | 439,302 | 24,111 | 24,084 |
Citation
If you find the dataset helpful, please consider citing our paper.
@inproceedings{10.1145/3626772.3657891,
author = {Piryani, Bhawna and Mozafari, Jamshid and Jatowt, Adam},
title = {ChroniclingAmericaQA: A Large-scale Question Answering Dataset based on Historical American Newspaper Pages},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400704314},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3626772.3657891},
doi = {10.1145/3626772.3657891},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
pages = {2038–2048},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {heritage collections, ocr text, question answering},
location = {Washington DC, USA},
series = {SIGIR '24}
}
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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