Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs

Adam Poliak; Max Fleming; Cash Costello; Kenton Murray; Mahsa Yarmohammadi; Shivani Pandya; Darius Irani; Milind Agarwal; Udit Sharma; Shuo Sun; Nicola Ivanov; Lingxi Shang; Kaushik Srinivasan; Seolhwa Lee; Xu Han; Smisha Agarwal; João Sedoc

doi:10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.31

Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs

Adam Poliak, Max Fleming, Cash Costello, Kenton Murray, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Shivani Pandya, Darius Irani, Milind Agarwal, Udit Sharma, Shuo Sun, Nicola Ivanov, Lingxi Shang, Kaushik Srinivasan, Seolhwa Lee, Xu Han, Smisha Agarwal, João Sedoc

Abstract

We release a dataset of over 2,100 COVID19 related Frequently asked Question-Answer pairs scraped from over 40 trusted websites. We include an additional 24, 000 questions pulled from online sources that have been aligned by experts with existing answered questions from our dataset. This paper describes our efforts in collecting the dataset and summarizes the resulting data. Our dataset is automatically updated daily and available at https://github.com/JHU-COVID-QA/ scraping-qas. So far, this data has been used to develop a chatbot providing users information about COVID-19. We encourage others to build analytics and tools upon this dataset as well.

Anthology ID:: 2020.nlpcovid19-2.31
Volume:: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
Month:: December
Year:: 2020
Address:: Online
Editors:: Karin Verspoor, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Michael Conway, Berry de Bruijn, Mark Dredze, Rada Mihalcea, Byron Wallace
Venue:: NLP-COVID19
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Publisher:: Association for Computational Linguistics
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URL:: https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.31
DOI:: 10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.31
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Cite (ACL):: Adam Poliak, Max Fleming, Cash Costello, Kenton Murray, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Shivani Pandya, Darius Irani, Milind Agarwal, Udit Sharma, Shuo Sun, Nicola Ivanov, Lingxi Shang, Kaushik Srinivasan, Seolhwa Lee, Xu Han, Smisha Agarwal, and João Sedoc. 2020. Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):: Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs (Poliak et al., NLP-COVID19 2020)
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