TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension

Citation Author(s):
Mandar
Joshi
Eunsol
Choi
Daniel
Weld
Luke
Zettlemoyer
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Toghrul Abbasli
Last updated:
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:04
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10.21227/de50-f985
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Abstract 

We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. TriviaQA includes 95K question-answer pairs authored by trivia enthusiasts and independently gathered evidence documents, six per question on average, that provide high quality distant supervision for answering the questions. We show that, in comparison to other recently introduced large-scale datasets, TriviaQA (1) has relatively complex, compositional questions, (2) has considerable syntactic and lexical variability between questions and corresponding answer-evidence sentences, and (3) requires more cross sentence reasoning to find answers. We also present two baseline algorithms: a feature-based classifier and a state-of-the-art neural network, that performs well on SQuAD reading comprehension. Neither approach comes close to human performance (23% and 40% vs. 80%), suggesting that TriviaQA is a challenging testbed that is worth significant future study.

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Put these uplaod files in the /data/trivia_qa folder. \data folder should in the same folder as main.py

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