---
license: mit
language:
- vi
tags:
- ag
- t5
- vit5
- squad-format
- vietnamese
- education
- nlp
pretty_name: vietnamese Question Generation
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# HVU_QA

**HVU_QA** is an open-source Vietnamese Question–Context–Answer (QCA) corpus for building FAQ-style question generation systems in low-resource languages.  
It was created using a fully automated pipeline combining web crawling, semantic tag-based extraction, and AI-assisted filtering to ensure high factual accuracy.

## Dataset Description

- Language: Vietnamese  
- Format: SQuAD-style JSON  
- Size: 30,000 QCA triples  
- Domains: Social services, labor law, administrative processes, and public service topics

Each data sample contains:
- `question`: The generated or extracted question
- `context`: The supporting passage
- `answer`: The answer span within the context

## Dataset Creation

**Pipeline:**
1. Selecting relevant QA websites from trusted sources  
2. Automated crawling to collect raw QA webpages  
3. Semantic tag-based extraction to get clean QCA triples  
4. AI-assisted filtering to remove noisy or inconsistent samples

**Annotation & Licensing:**  
All data are collected from public-domain Vietnamese government and service portals, released under CC BY 4.0.

## Quality Evaluation

A fine-tuned `VietAI/vit5-base` model trained on **HVU_QA** was used to validate the dataset quality.

**Automatic metrics:**

| Metric               | Score               |
|-----------------------|----------------------|
| BLEU                  | 90.61                |
| Semantic similarity   | 97.0% (cosine ≥ 0.8) |

**Human evaluation (1–5 scale):**

| Aspect           | Avg. Score |
|------------------|-------------|
| Grammaticality    | 4.58 / 5    |
| Usefulness        | 4.29 / 5    |

These results confirm that **HVU_QA** is a high-quality resource for developing robust FAQ-style question generation models.

## Setup

### Step 1 — Clone repository (optional if local)

```bash
git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/DANGDOCAO/GeneratingQuestions
cd GeneratingQuestions
```

### Step 2 — Install dependencies

**Minimal:**
```bash
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install datasets transformers sentencepiece safetensors
```

**Recommended (for training & evaluation):**
```bash
pip install datasets transformers sentencepiece safetensors accelerate evaluate sacrebleu rouge-score nltk tensorboard scikit-learn
```

**Install PyTorch (choose CUDA/CPU from https://pytorch.org):**
```bash
pip install torch
```

### Step 3 — (Optional) Configure environment

```bash
pip install -U huggingface_hub
huggingface-cli login
git lfs install
```

Only needed if you want to push to Hub or download private models.

### Step 4 — Download data

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("DANGDOCAO/GeneratingQuestions", split="train")
print(ds[0])
```

Or from local JSON:
```python
ds = load_dataset("json", data_files="30ktrain.json", split="train")
```

### Step 5 — Verify installation

```bash
python -c "import torch, transformers, datasets, sklearn, sentencepiece, safetensors; print('All installed OK!')"
```

## Usage

### Fine-tune model

```bash
python fine_tune_qg.py
```

This will:
1. Load data from `30ktrain.json`
2. Fine-tune `VietAI/vit5-base`
3. Save model to `t5-viet-qg-finetuned/`

### Generate questions

```bash
python generate_question.py
```

Example
```
Input passage:
Iced milk coffee (Cà phê sữa đá) is a famous drink in Vietnam.
Number of questions: 5
```

Output
1. What type of coffee is famous in Vietnam?  
2. Why is iced milk coffee popular?  
3. What ingredients are included in iced milk coffee?  
4. Where does iced milk coffee originate from?  
5. How is Vietnamese iced milk coffee prepared?

Adjustable parameters (`generate_question.py`):  
`top_k`, `top_p`, `temperature`, `no_repeat_ngram_size`, `repetition_penalty`

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{nguyen2025hvuqa,
  title={A Method to Build QA Corpora for Low-Resource Languages},
  author={Ha Nguyen-Tien and Phuc Le-Hong and Dang Do-Cao and Cuong Nguyen-Hung and Chung Mai-Van},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE)},
  year={2025}
}
```