just announce on the Google AI Blog …/
Natural Questions: a New Corpus and Challenge for Question Answering Research
this is pretty exciting …hope to this grow and have fruitful implementation on the Google search engine.
this is what the Google AI researchers are saying
…. there are currently no large, publicly available sources of naturally occurring questions (i.e. questions asked by a person seeking information) and answers that can be used to train and evaluate QA models. This is because assembling a high-quality dataset for question answering requires a large source of real questions and significant human effort in finding correct answers.
To help spur research advances in QA, we are excited to announce Natural Questions (NQ), a new, large-scale corpus for training and evaluating open-domain question answering systems, and the first to replicate the end-to-end process in which people find answers to questions. NQ is large, consisting of 300,000 naturally occurring questions, along with human annotated answers from Wikipedia pages, to be used in training QA systems. We have additionally included 16,000 examples where answers (to the same questions) are provided by 5 different annotators,
I am really looking forward to digging into this …good questions and good answers are definitely part of the key for solving some great puzzles ….
have fun …
