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XQuAD
XQuAD (Cross-lingual Question Answering Dataset) is a benchmark dataset for evaluating cross-lingual question answering performance. The dataset consists of a subset of 240 paragraphs and 1190 question-answer pairs from the development set of SQuAD v1.1 (Rajpurkar et al., 2016) together with their professional translations into ten languages: Spanish, German, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, and Hindi. Consequently, the dataset is entirely parallel across 11 languages.
Source: XQuAD Image Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.11856v3.pdf
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Cross-Lingual Question Answering | XQuAD | ByT5 XXL EM 63.6 | ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained... | huggingface/transformers +4 | 4 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
3 shown of 3 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 190. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mLUKE: The Power of Entity Representations in Multilingual Pretrained Language Models | 4 | 1 | 15 Oct 2021 | not harvested |
| ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models | 5 | 1 | 28 May 2021 | ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified) |
| Rethinking embedding coupling in pre-trained language models | 4 | 2 | 24 Oct 2020 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
5 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- XQuAD
- XQuAD (de)
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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