README.md

metadata

pretty_name: '`beir/quora`'
viewer: false
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval

Dataset Card for beir/quora

The beir/quora dataset, provided by the ir-datasets package. For more information about the dataset, see the documentation.

Data

This dataset provides:

• docs (documents, i.e., the corpus); count=522,931
• queries (i.e., topics); count=15,000

This dataset is used by: beir_quora_dev, beir_quora_test

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

docs = load_dataset('irds/beir_quora', 'docs')
for record in docs:
    record # {'doc_id': ..., 'text': ...}

queries = load_dataset('irds/beir_quora', 'queries')
for record in queries:
    record # {'query_id': ..., 'text': ...}

Note that calling load_dataset will download the dataset (or provide access instructions when it's not public) and make a copy of the data in 🤗 Dataset format.

Citation Information

@article{Thakur2021Beir,
  title = "BEIR: A Heterogenous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models",
  author = "Thakur, Nandan and Reimers, Nils and Rücklé, Andreas and Srivastava, Abhishek and Gurevych, Iryna", 
  journal= "arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08663",
  month = "4",
  year = "2021",
  url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08663",
}