The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge Dataset

This repository contains the NarrativeQA dataset. It includes the list of documents with Wikipedia summaries, links to full stories, and questions and answers.

For a detailed description of this see the paper The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge. Please cite the paper if you use this corpus in your work.

Files

• documents.csv - contains document_id, set, kind, story_url, story_file_size, wiki_url, wiki_title, story_word_count, story_start, story_end. The word count is approximate after some basic cleanup and tokenization.
• third_party/wikipedia/summaries.csv - contains document_id, set, summary, summary_tokenized. The summaries are from Wikipedia.
• qaps.csv - contains document_id, set, question, answer1, answer2, question_tokenized, answer1_tokenized, answer2_tokenized.
• download_stories.sh - script to download the stories.
• compare.sh - compare downloaded story's file size to the document size we had. (At the time of publication, all stories have <3.5% file difference (except one), likely due to punctuation encoding.)

Bibtex

@article{narrativeqa,
author = {Tom\'a\v s Ko\v cisk\'y and Jonathan Schwarz and Phil Blunsom and
          Chris Dyer and Karl Moritz Hermann and G\'abor Melis and
          Edward Grefenstette},
title = {The {NarrativeQA} Reading Comprehension Challenge},
journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://TBD},
volume = {TBD},
year = {2018},
pages = {TBD},
}

Dataset Metadata

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property	value
name	The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge Dataset
alternateName	NarrativeQA
url	https://github.com/deepmind/narrativeqa
sameAs	https://github.com/deepmind/narrativeqa
description	This repository contains the NarrativeQA dataset. It includes the list of documents with Wikipedia summaries, links to full stories, and questions and answers.
provider	property value name DeepMind sameAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind
license	property value name Apache License, Version 2.0 url https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
citation	https://identifiers.org/arxiv:1712.07040