FQuAD: French Question Answering Dataset

TL;DR

The paper introduces FQuAD, a large French Question Answering dataset based on Wikipedia, enabling progress tracking and benchmarking for French NLP models, with a baseline model achieving high accuracy.

Contribution

It provides the first extensive French QA dataset with over 25,000 samples, along with a leaderboard and baseline results for future research.

Findings

Baseline model achieved 92.2 F1 score

Dataset contains over 60,000 samples in version 1.1

FQuAD is publicly available for research use

Abstract

Recent advances in the field of language modeling have improved state-of-the-art results on many Natural Language Processing tasks. Among them, Reading Comprehension has made significant progress over the past few years. However, most results are reported in English since labeled resources available in other languages, such as French, remain scarce. In the present work, we introduce the French Question Answering Dataset (FQuAD). FQuAD is a French Native Reading Comprehension dataset of questions and answers on a set of Wikipedia articles that consists of 25,000+ samples for the 1.0 version and 60,000+ samples for the 1.1 version. We train a baseline model which achieves an F1 score of 92.2 and an exact match ratio of 82.1 on the test set. In order to track the progress of French Question Answering models we propose a leader-board and we have made the 1.0 version of our dataset freely available at https://illuin-tech.github.io/FQuAD-explorer/.