floschne/gimmick-qa-base

GIMMICK QA Base Dataset

This is the base dataset for the GIMMICK Cultural Origin QA (COQA) and GIMMICK Cultural Knowledge QA datasets introduced by our paper GIMMICK - Globally Inclusive Multimodal Multitask Cultural Knowledge Benchmarking.

Dataset Details

The dataset comprises 728 cultural events or facets from 144 countries in six global regions depicted by 6857 images from the UNESCO ICH project. More details are reported in the paper.

For information on how to use the dataset for the COQA and CKQA tasks, please refer to the GitHub Repository :-)

Citation

@article{schneider2025gimmick,
      title={GIMMICK -- Globally Inclusive Multimodal Multitask Cultural Knowledge Benchmarking}, 
      author={Florian Schneider and Carolin Holtermann and Chris Biemann and Anne Lauscher},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.13766},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13766}, 
}