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ELI5

Introduced by Angela Fan et al. in ELI5: Long Form Question Answering22 Jul 2019 archive 2025-07-28

ELI5 is a dataset for long-form question answering. It contains 270K complex, diverse questions that require explanatory multi-sentence answers. Web search results are used as evidence documents to answer each question.

ELI5 is also a task in Dodecadialogue.

Source: ELI5 Image Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.09190v1.pdf

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Open-Domain Question Answering ELI5 Fourier Transformer Rouge-L 26.9 Fourier Transformer: Fast Long Range Modeling by... lumia-group/fouriertransformer 6 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

6 shown of 6 papers 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 158. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

6 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • ELI5

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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