README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - question-answering
  - text-retrieval
language:
  - en
tags:
  - rag
  - qasper
  - scientific-qa
  - retrieval
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: answers
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: answers/train*
      - split: dev
        path: answers/dev*
      - split: test
        path: answers/test*
  - config_name: corpus
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: corpus/*
  - config_name: qrels
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: qrels/train*
      - split: dev
        path: qrels/dev*
      - split: test
        path: qrels/test*
  - config_name: queries
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: queries/train*
      - split: dev
        path: queries/dev*
      - split: test
        path: queries/test*
  - config_name: retrieved_docs
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: retrieved_docs/train-*
      - split: dev
        path: retrieved_docs/dev-*
      - split: test
        path: retrieved_docs/test-*
  - config_name: top_ranked
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: top_ranked/train*
      - split: dev
        path: top_ranked/dev*
      - split: test
        path: top_ranked/test*
dataset_info:
  config_name: retrieved_docs
  features:
    - name: query_id
      dtype: string
    - name: corpus_id
      dtype: string
    - name: rank
      dtype: int64
    - name: retrieval_score
      dtype: float64
    - name: is_relevant
      dtype: bool
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 1681424
      num_examples: 20985
    - name: dev
      num_bytes: 712632
      num_examples: 8894
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 1048757
      num_examples: 13089
  download_size: 758823
  dataset_size: 3442813

QASPER RAG

Dataset for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based on QASPER.

Structure

Subset	Splits	Description
corpus	train (default)	Paper chunks (abstract + full-text paragraphs) shared across all query splits
queries	train, dev, test	Information-seeking questions over scientific papers
qrels	train, dev, test	Relevance judgments (query ↔ paragraph chunk)
answers	train, dev, test	Reference answers (longest valid free-form answer)
top_ranked	train, dev, test	Paper-scoped candidate pool (all chunks of the query paper)
retrieved_docs	train, dev, test	Top-k retrieval results with relevance labels

Dataset statistics

Split	Queries	Corpus
train	2101	81550
dev	890	81550
test	1310	81550

The corpus is shared across all splits and contains paragraph-level chunks from the abstract and full text of each paper.

• Dev split: mapped from the original validation split
• Corpus source: unique papers from train, validation and test splits
• Chunking: one chunk for the abstract (section_name: abstract) and one chunk per paragraph in full_text

Source

Component	QASPER resource
Train	train split from allenai/qasper
Dev	validation split
Test	test split
Corpus	abstract + full_text.paragraphs
Queries	qas.question
Qrels	qas.answers[*].answer[*].evidence matched to corpus chunks
Top ranked	All paragraph chunks from the query paper (paper-scoped retrieval pool)
Answers	Longest valid answer per question (free_form_answer, joined extractive_spans, or Yes/No)

Filtering

Questions are kept only when at least one answer satisfies all of the following:

• unanswerable is false
• the answer has free_form_answer, non-empty extractive_spans, or yes_no
• after removing evidence items containing FLOAT SELECTED, at least one answer still has evidence that matches the corpus

Evidence items containing FLOAT SELECTED are removed individually. Questions are omitted only when no valid answer has remaining evidence.

Schema

corpus

{"id": "...", "title": "...", "section_name": "...", "text": "..."}

queries

{"id": "...", "text": "..."}

qrels

{"query_id": "...", "corpus_id": "...", "score": 1}

answers

{"query_id": "...", "answer": "..."}

top_ranked

{"query-id": "...", "corpus-ids": ["paper_00000", "paper_00001"]}

retrieved_docs

{"query_id": "...", "corpus_id": "...", "rank": 1, "retrieval_score": 0.92, "is_relevant": true}

Top-k documents retrieved from the indexed corpus (is_relevant is derived from qrels).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

corpus = load_dataset("DinoStackAI/qasper-rag", "corpus")["train"]
queries = load_dataset("DinoStackAI/qasper-rag", "queries")
qrels = load_dataset("DinoStackAI/qasper-rag", "qrels")
answers = load_dataset("DinoStackAI/qasper-rag", "answers")

train_queries = queries["train"]
dev_qrels = qrels["dev"]
test_answers = answers["test"]

Citation

QASPER is released under the CC BY 4.0 License.

@inproceedings{Dasigi2021ADO,
  title={A Dataset of Information-Seeking Questions and Answers Anchored in Research Papers},
  author={Pradeep Dasigi and Kyle Lo and Iz Beltagy and Arman Cohan and Noah A. Smith and Matt Gardner},
  year={2021}
}