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TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
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We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples.TriviaQA includes 95K questionanswer 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 featurebased 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 Trivi-aQA is a challenging testbed that is worth significant future study. 1
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“, 2019) and TriviaQA (Joshi et al., 2017), Chinchilla outperforms Gopher in all cases.”
Influential
Metadata
- Authors
- Joshi, M., Choi, E., Weld, D., & Zettlemoyer, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 1601-1611
- ISSN
- 0736-587X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2612431505
- Cited by
- 1,690
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 141 · 2025: 205 · 2024: 157 · 2023: 220 · 2022: 204 · 2021: 259 · 2020: 198 · 2019: 190 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 19
- FWCI
- 61.63
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- IEEE DataPort (cc-by)
- Funders
- Tencent
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (FA8750-13-2-0019, FA8750)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Keywords
- TriviaQA, reading comprehension, distant supervision, trivia questions, SQuAD
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