---
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: corpus
    path: "corpus/data-00000-of-00001.arrow"
  - split: queries
    path: "queries/data-00000-of-00001.arrow"
license: cc-by-4.0
language: 
  - de
source_datasets:
 - "deepset/germanquad"
---

This dataset is derived from the [GermanQuAD](https://www.deepset.ai/germanquad) dataset.

This dataset takes the testset and represents it as a corpus in the [BEIR](https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir) information retrieval benchmark format.
Corpus and query ids have been added.
The corresponding qrels can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/germanquad-retrieval-qrels).


Full credit for the original dataset goes to the [authors](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12741) of the GermanQuAD [dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/deepset/germandpr).

The original dataset is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Citation for the original dataset:
```
@misc{möller2021germanquad,
      title={GermanQuAD and GermanDPR: Improving Non-English Question Answering and Passage Retrieval}, 
      author={Timo Möller and Julian Risch and Malte Pietsch},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2104.12741},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```
The derived dataset was created by @rasdani.