{"url":"/dataset/nqii","name":"NQiI","full_name":"Natural Questions In Icelandic","description_markdown":"**Natural Questions in Icelandic (NQiI)** is a valuable dataset designed for **extractive question answering (QA)** in the Icelandic language. Let me provide you with some details about this dataset:\r\n\r\n1. **Purpose and Importance**:\r\n   - The NQiI dataset was created to facilitate the development and evaluation of Icelandic QA systems.\r\n   - It also supports the development of QA methods that need to work across a wide range of morphologically and grammatically diverse languages in a multilingual context¹.\r\n\r\n2. **Dataset Creation**:\r\n   - Contributors were asked to come up with questions they were genuinely interested in knowing the answers to.\r\n   - Later, they were tasked with finding answers to each other's questions using a previously published methodology.\r\n   - The questions in NQiI are \"natural\" in the sense that they arise from genuine curiosity¹.\r\n\r\n3. **Dataset Details**:\r\n   - The complete NQiI dataset contains **18,000 labeled entries**.\r\n   - Among these, **5,568 entries** are directly suitable for training an extractive QA system specifically for Icelandic¹.\r\n\r\n4. **Resource and Evaluation**:\r\n   - NQiI serves as a valuable resource for Icelandic language research.\r\n   - Researchers have used it to create and evaluate systems capable of extractive QA in Icelandic¹.\r\n\r\n(1) Natural Questions in Icelandic - ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.477/.\r\n(2) NQiI - Natural Questions In Icelandic - v1.0 - CLARIN. https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/143.\r\n(3) Natural Questions in Icelandic - ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.477/.\r\n(4) Natural Questions in Icelandic - ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.477.pdf.\r\n(5) undefined. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.477.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"","introduced_date":"2022-06-01","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/natural-questions-in-icelandic","title":"Natural Questions in Icelandic","first_author":"Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["NQiI"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/huggingface/datasets","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vesteinn/icelandic-qa-NQiI","frameworks":["tf","pytorch","jax"]}],"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."}