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QUASAR-T (QUestion Answering by Search And Reading – Trivia)

Introduced by Bhuwan Dhingra et al. in Quasar: Datasets for Question Answering by Search and Reading1 Jan 2017 archive 2025-07-28

QUASAR-T is a large-scale dataset aimed at evaluating systems designed to comprehend a natural language query and extract its answer from a large corpus of text. It consists of 43,013 open-domain trivia questions and their answers obtained from various internet sources. ClueWeb09 serves as the background corpus for extracting these answers. The answers to these questions are free-form spans of text, though most are noun phrases.

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Question Answering Quasart-T Cluster-Former (#C=512) EM 54 Cluster-Former: Clustering-based Sparse Transformer for... — 7 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

7 shown of 7 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 55. 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
Cluster-Former: Clustering-based Sparse Transformer for Long-Range Dependency Encoding 0 1 13 Sep 2020 not harvested
Reformer: The Efficient Transformer 10 1 13 Jan 2020 ran 6 of 8 samples (2 unverified)
Multi-passage BERT: A Globally Normalized BERT Model for Open-domain Question Answering 0 1 22 Aug 2019 not harvested
Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers 7 1 23 Apr 2019 ran 5 of 6 samples (1 unverified)
Densely Connected Attention Propagation for Reading Comprehension 2 1 10 Nov 2018 not harvested
Denoising Distantly Supervised Open-Domain Question Answering 1 1 1 Jul 2018 not harvested
Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions 10 1 31 Mar 2017 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Quasar
  • Quasart-T
  • QUASAR-T

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