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60k Stack Overflow Questions (60k Stack Overflow Questions from 2016-2020 classified into three categories based on their quality)

Introduced by Issa Annamoradnejad et al. in Multi-View Approach to Suggest Moderation Actions in Community Question Answering Sites4 Apr 2022 archive 2025-07-28

The dataset contains 60,000 Stack Overflow questions from 2016-2020, classified into three categories:

  1. HQ: High-quality posts without a single edit.
  2. LQ_EDIT: Low-quality posts with a negative score, and multiple community edits. However, they still remain open after those changes.
  3. LQ_CLOSE: Low-quality posts that were closed by the community without a single edit.

Notes

  • Questions are sorted according to Question Id.
  • Question body is in HTML format.
  • All dates are in UTC format.
  • The dataset is also accessible at https://www.kaggle.com/imoore/60k-stack-overflow-questions-with-quality-rate

How to cite

This is an original dataset, published under MIT License. Please cite the dataset for your usage as the following:

@article{annamoradnejad2022multiview,
  title={Multi-View Approach to Suggest Moderation Actions in Community Question Answering Sites},
  author={Annamoradnejad, Issa and Habibi, Jafar and Fazli, Mohammadamin},
  journal = {Information Sciences},
  volume = {600},
  pages = {144-154},
  year = {2022},
  issn = {0020-0255},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.03.085},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025522003127}
}

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Question Quality Assessment 60k Stack Overflow Questions Multi-view approach F1 Score .917 Multi-View Approach to Suggest Moderation Actions in... — 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 1. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Multi-View Approach to Suggest Moderation Actions in Community Question Answering Sites 0 1 4 Apr 2022 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

No loader listed in the archive.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

MIT

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • 60k Stack Overflow Questions

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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