FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset
Table 3: The number of articles, paragraphs and questions for FQuAD1.1
['Dataset', 'Articles', 'Paragraphs', 'Questions']
The guidelines for writing question and answer pairs for each paragraph are the same as for SQuAD1.1 [rajpurkar-etal-2016-squad]. First, the paragraph is presented to the student on the platform and the student reads it. Second, the student thinks of a question whose answer is a span of text within the context. Third, the student selects the smallest span in the paragraph which contains the answer. The process is then repeated until 3 to 5 questions are generated and correctly answered. The students were asked to spend on average 1 minute on each question and answer pair. This amounts to an average of 3-5 minutes per annotated paragraph. The total number of questions amounts to 62003. The FQuAD1.1 training, development and test sets are then respectively composed of 271 articles (83%), 30 (9%) and 25 (8%). The difference with the first annotation process is that the workers were specifically asked to come up with complex questions by varying style and question types in order to increase difficulty. The additional answer collection process remains the same.