{"url":"/dataset/circa","name":"Circa","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"The Circa (meaning ‘approximately’) dataset aims to help machine learning systems to solve the problem of interpreting indirect answers to polar questions.\r\n\r\nThe dataset contains pairs of yes/no questions and indirect answers, together with annotations for the interpretation of the answer. The data is collected in 10 different social conversational situations (eg. food preferences of a friend). Examples:\r\n\r\n```\r\nQ: Are you vegan?\r\nA: I love burgers too much. [No]\r\n\r\nQ: Do you like spicy food?\r\nA: I put hot sauce on everything. [Yes] \r\n\r\nQ: Would you like to go see live music?\r\nA: If it’s not too crowded. [Yes, upon a condition]\r\n```\r\n\r\nCurrently, the Circa annotations focus on a few classes such as ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘yes, upon condition’. The data can be used to build machine learning models which can replicate these classes on new question-answer pairs, and allow evaluation of methods for doing so.\r\n\r\nSource: [Circa](https://github.com/google-research-datasets/circa)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/google-research-datasets/circa","introduced_date":"2020-10-07","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/i-d-rather-just-go-to-bed-understanding","title":"\"I'd rather just go to bed\": Understanding Indirect Answers","first_author":"Annie Louis","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Texts","url":"/datasets/modality/texts"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Language Modelling","url":"/task/language-modelling","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/language-modelling"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["Circa"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/huggingface/datasets","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/google-research-datasets/circa","frameworks":["tf","pytorch","jax"]},{"repo":"https://github.com/huggingface/datasets","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/circa","frameworks":["tf","pytorch","jax"]},{"repo":"https://github.com/google-research-datasets/circa","url":"https://github.com/google-research-datasets/circa","frameworks":[]}],"num_papers_in_archive":2,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}