Artifact Dataset

Natural Questions

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/natural-questions/

A question-answering dataset based on natural user questions, used in retrieval and open-domain question-answering evaluation.

Also called

  • NQ

Scope

Natural Questions appears in BEIR as an open-domain QA retrieval dataset. It should be distinguished from question answering as a task and from BEIR as a benchmark suite.

Not equivalent to

  • Natural Questions is not BEIR. Natural Questions is a component evaluation dataset; BEIR is the benchmark suite that includes it.
  • Natural Questions is not Question Answering. Natural Questions is a dataset; question answering is the task.

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