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SQuAD — Stanford Question Answering Dataset

Fact

A question-answer dataset and benchmark for testing machine reading.

In Plain Words

SQuAD is a reading quiz with a highlighter. The answer must be in the paragraph, not from your wild guess.

It tests reading QA. It checks if a model can find the right answer in the text.

Related Concepts

QA
SQuAD is one of the classic reading benchmarks for QA.

NLU
SQuAD uses reading questions to test if a model understands text.

BERT
BERT once made a big score jump on SQuAD.