---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: query
    dtype: string
  - name: answer_passage
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 67154228
    num_examples: 100231
  download_size: 43997410
  dataset_size: 67154228
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- question-answering
- feature-extraction
language:
- en
---

This is a mirror of [Google's Natural Questions (NQ)](https://github.com/google-research-datasets/natural-questions).
The dataset is converted into paris of `(query, answer_passage)`.

> Natural Questions (NQ) contains real user questions issued to Google search, and answers found from Wikipedia by annotators. NQ is designed for the training and evaluation of automatic question answering systems.