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---
language: et
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: context
    dtype: string
  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: answers
    list:
    - name: answer_start
      dtype: int64
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: id
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 772885
    num_examples: 776
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 590275
    num_examples: 603
  download_size: 257799
  dataset_size: 1363160
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- question-answering
pretty_name: EstQA
---


# Estonian Question Answering dataset

* Dataset for extractive question answering in Estonian. It is based on Wikipedia articles, pre-filtered via PageRank. Annotation was done by one person.
* Train set includes 776 context-question-answer triplets. There are several possible answers per question, each in a separate triplet. Number of different questions is 512.
* Test set includes 603 samples. Each sample contains one or more golden answers. Altogether there are 892 golden ansewrs.

### Change log

* Version 1.2: restructured from https://huggingface.co/datasets/anukaver/EstQA to use flattened structure
* Version 1.1: Test set v1.1 adds some more golden answers.

### Reference
If you use this dataset for research, please cite the following paper:

```
@mastersthesis{mastersthesis,
  author       = {Anu Käver}, 
  title        = {Extractive Question Answering for Estonian Language},
  school       = {Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)},
  year         = 2021
}
```