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DL-HARD (Deep Learning Hard)

Introduced by Iain Mackie et al. in How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset17 May 2021 archive 2025-07-28

Deep Learning Hard (DL-HARD) is an annotated dataset designed to more effectively evaluate neural ranking models on complex topics. It builds on TREC Deep Learning (DL) questions extensively annotated with query intent categories, answer types, wikified entities, topic categories, and result type metadata from a leading web search engine.

DL-HARD contains 50 queries from the official 2019/2020 evaluation benchmark, half of which are newly and independently assessed. Overall, DL-HARD is a new resource that promotes research on neural ranking methods by focusing on challenging and complex queries.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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