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license: apache-2.0
source_datasets: []
tags:
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---

# friendsqa

FriendsQA span QA over Friends transcript scenes, native trn/dev/tst partitions.

The official release gives answers as ``utterance_id`` + an inner token span (or, for
"who is speaking" questions, the speaker name with no span). Each dialogue is flattened to one
``Speaker, Speaker: utterance`` line per utterance, and every answer is relocated to a character
offset in that flattened context, verified verbatim (simultaneous multi-speaker lines locate
correctly because the gold speaker name is always a prefix of the joined speaker list). Only 2
of 16,662 train answers carry a genuine source token-offset bug and cannot be relocated; those
two gold spans are dropped and every other valid gold answer for their question is kept, so no
question is dropped. Duplicate (text, offset) answers from different annotators are collapsed to
one gold span. Original terms: Apache License 2.0 (repository LICENSE.txt).

Original data: [original distribution](https://github.com/emorynlp/FriendsQA). Repackaged as parquet for [tasksource](https://github.com/sileod/tasksource) by [scripts/repackage_dataset/dialogue.py](https://github.com/sileod/tasksource/blob/main/scripts/repackage_dataset/dialogue.py#L104).

[Conversion provenance](provenance.json): source revisions, hashes, configuration and exclusions.