french/question_answering.md
Question answering is the task of answering a question.
The French Question Answering dataset (FQuAD) is a reading comprehension dataset in the style of SQuAD. It consists of 25k questions on Wikipedia articles. The dataset is available here.
Example:
| Document | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Des observations de 2015 par la sonde Dawn ont confirmé qu'elle possède une forme sphérique, à la différence des corps plus petits qui ont une forme irrégulière. [...] | A quand remonte les observations faites par la sonde Dawn ? | 2015 |
| Model | F1 | EM | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human performance | 92.1 | 78.4 | FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset |
| CamemBERTQA (d'Hoffschmidt et al., 2020)* | 88.0 | 77.9 | FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset |
| CamemBERTQA (d'Hoffschmidt et al., 2020)† | 84.1 | 70.9 | FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset |
*: trained on the FQuAD training set
†: trained on the SQuAD training set and zero-shot transferred to the FQuAD test set.