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license: mit
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# Dataset Card for Dataset Name
This is dataset is ported to huggingface directly from the semantic-systems/amharic-qa[semantic-systems/amharic-qa](https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa) repo. Please read the paper in the provided link


- **Curated by:** Tilahun Abedissa, Ricardo Usbeck, Yaregal Assabie
- **Shared by:** Dagim Ashenafi
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Amharic
- **License:** MIT

### Dataset Sources 

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- **Repository:** [https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa](https://github.com/semantic-systems/amharic-qa)
- **Paper:** [https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03290](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03290)


## Dataset Structure
This dataset contains information in a tabular format with two columns ('question' and 'answer') and a total of 2256 rows. Each row represents a data example with a question and its corresponding answer.


### Source Data
Arrticles collected from Amharic Wikipedia dump file.

#### Data Collection and Processing
Crowdsourcing and annotated using the Haystack QA annotation tool. 

## Citation [optional]
cff-version: 1.2.0
title: 'AmQA: Amharic Question Answering Dataset'
message: >-
  If you use this dataset, please cite it using the
  metadata from this file.
type: dataset
authors:
  - given-names: Tilahun
    family-names: Abedissa
    email: tilahun.abedissa@aau.edu.et
    affiliation: Addis Ababa University
  - given-names: Ricardo
    family-names: Usbeck
    email: ricardo.usbeck@uni-hamburg.de
    affiliation: Universität Hamburg
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0191-7211'
  - given-names: Yaregal
    family-names: Assabie
    email: yaregal.assabie@aau.edu.et
    affiliation: Addis Ababa University


## Dataset Card Authors [optional]
Dagim Ashenafi


## Dataset Card Contact
dagim.ashenafi.birru@gmail.com