Dataset Card for LiveQA

Dataset Summary

The LiveQA dataset is a Chinese question-answering resource constructed from playby-play live broadcasts. It contains 117k multiple-choice questions written by human commentators for over 1,670 NBA games, which are collected from the Chinese Hupu website.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Question Answering.

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Languages

Chinese.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance represents a timeline (i.e., a game) with an identifier. The passages field comprise an array of text or question segments. In the following truncated example, user comments about the game is followed by a question about which team will be the first to reach 60 points.

{
  
    'id': 1,
    'passages': [
      {
        "is_question": False,
        "text": "'我希望两位球员都能做到！！",
        "candidate1": "",
        "candidate2": "",
        "answer": "",
      },
      {
        "is_question": False,
        "text": "新年给我们送上精彩比赛！",
        "candidate1": "",
        "candidate2": "",
        "answer": "",
      },
      {
        "is_question": True,
        "text": "先达到60分？",
        "candidate1": "火箭",
        "candidate2": "勇士",
        "answer": "勇士",
      },
      {
        "is_question": False,
        "text": "自己急停跳投！！！",
        "candidate1": "",
        "candidate2": "",
        "answer": "",
      }
    ]
}

Data Fields

• id: identifier for the game
• passages: collection of text/question segments
• text: real-time text comment or binary question related to the context
• candidate1/2: one of the two answer options to the question
• answer: correct answer to the question in text

Data Splits

There is no predefined split in this dataset.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

This resource is developed by Liu et al., 2020.

@inproceedings{qianying-etal-2020-liveqa,
    title = "{L}ive{QA}: A Question Answering Dataset over Sports Live",
    author = "Qianying, Liu  and
      Sicong, Jiang  and
      Yizhong, Wang  and
      Sujian, Li",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Haikou, China",
    publisher = "Chinese Information Processing Society of China",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.ccl-1.98",
    pages = "1057--1067"
}

Contributions

Thanks to @j-chim for adding this dataset.